Black Sun teams use flocking and scale
Stumble It!During spring in Denmark, just before sunset, flocks of more than a million European Starlings gather from all corners to create an incredible phenomenon known as The Black Sun. The Black Sun principles of flocking and mass collaboration can also be applied to organisational teams.
How to gain advantages in organisational teams and business networks by adapting the principles of flocking and swarming is discussed in Enhance team performance by consistent individual behavior.
The potential benefits of scale in collaboration is discussed in Mass Collaboration and Virtual Crowds.
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Animal Instincts in the office
Just because we might have selfish genes it does not mean we have to behave selfishly; nature knows when to be nice as well as nasty and nepotism occurs in the biological world too with equal destructiveness as our world. This is according to Richard Conniff author of The Ape in the Corner Office and reviewed in the UK Guardian Newspaper (27 May).
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