The National Science Foundation, October 24, 2007, reports that scientists have found that being social and forming groups is a powerful protection against prey extinction.

An obvious characteristic of nature’s best teams is that they seem to have just the right amount of structure to handle their environments. Too much and they would be slow and cumbersome; too little and they would lack the sophisticated responses to protect their position in the food chain.

I have noticed that there are four things which good teams seem to do and which bad teams don’t do. Check to see how your own team shapes up.

The Book "The Starfish and The Spider" uses the amazing capabilities of starfish to survive and regrow damaged limbs as a powerful metaphor for leaderless organisations.

I am pleased to announce a major upgrade to www.bioteams.com (Team Dynamics, Virtual Collaboration and Bioteaming) with a number of exciting new features to make it much easier to browse, locate and share its nearly 500 articles and essays.