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In How I put my husband through the hoops Amy Sutherland writing in G2 for the UK Guardian describes how she used tricks trainers use on wild animals such as dolphins, elephants and african crested cranes to modify her husbands behavior!

Amy also learned the true meaning of the animal trainers motto:

"It is never the animals fault"

These animal change management tricks include:

1. rewarding new positive behavior and simply ignoring old negative behavior


2. "approximations" where you create and reward interim steps to a larger behavior change


3. least reinforcing syndrome (LRS) where you avoid any response whatsovever to unhelpful behaviors


4. "incompatible behaviors" where instead of trying to stop a negative behavior you replace it with a different (positive) behavior

All of these techniques can be helpful in nurturing a traditional team into a bioteam.

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Leadership under pressure: the two worst mistakes

August 7, 2008 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

I have been thinking a lot about what happens when a leader gets under severe pressure, usually because things are not going according to plan. It seems to me this is the very essence of real leadership and where leaders can really justify their salaries. BUT according to Professor Dietrich Dorner, in his excellent book The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations, there are two very tempting but ultimately disastrous tangents a leader can pursue in a crisis instead of addressing the real issues.

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