A biology lesson for bankers

Thanks to Jo Jordan for pointing out research on how biological systems such as the animal kingdom or the environment can offer lessons on how we might have predicted and controlled the behaviour of bankers and thus avoided the financial panic that has rocked our financial system to their core.


The Banking Crisis

Image from EDUInReview.com

"There is common ground in analysing financial systems and ecosystems, especially in the need to identify conditions that dispose a system to be knocked from seeming stability into another, less happy state".


Read the original Nature Paper
Ecology for bankers in Nature Vol 451|21 February 2008

Read the Financial Times Article:
A lesson for bankers from the birds and the bees


Comments (0)| Related (3) |

Email to a friend | Print this article

Leave a comment

 


Bioteams Books Reviews

Leadership and Self-Deception

Leadership and Self-Deception
A few months ago I read the book "Leadership and Self-Deception". Then I became a friend of the Arbinger Institute, went through some training with them in London and may be involved with them in the future. So I suppose the book inspired me – here’s why! Guest book review by Mario Gastaldi.


Buy it now from:
Amazon.Com
Amazon.Co.UK


Comments (1) |

continue reading

Click here to check all Bioteams book reviews

Discover Bioteams principles Yourself via Action Learning BioScore Calculator – Instantly see if you need Bioteams Bioteams Assessor - Instantly check how good your team is?

Wired Mag on Bioteams

Translate this page

Français Deutsch Nederlands Español

Featured Categories

Featured Article

Team joining hands

The secret DNA of high-performing virtual teams

Bioteaming – the secret to high-performing, self-organising, virtually networked teams... more

The Bumble Bees Top Collaboration Techniques Mini Site

Key Essays - view all

Click for more...

Hot Tags

agility ants autopoiesis bees biomimicry bioteaming bioteams collaboration collective intelligence complex systems ecosystems flock leadership mobile phones organizational teams pheromones self-managed teams simulators Social Networks social software swarm swarm intelligence teamwork The Networked Enterprise tit for tat VEN video videos virtual communities virtual enterprise networks virtual teams web2.0 wisdom of crowds

Click for more...

View my LinkedIN Profile

Search www.bioteams.com

Bioteams Ice-Breaker Zone

Funny Team Collaboration Video Dilbert Mission Statement Generator Ali G Video Funny Red Dwarf Video  FatherTed  Pixar

Interact with the Bioteams Community Messageboard

Join the Bioteams Community

Is bioteams a global trend?

Locations of visitors to this page

Get my new blogs on Twitter

follow ken.thompson at http://twitter.com

Newsletter

News Feed

Sign up for RSS   RSS Feed Subscription
        (What's RSS?)

10 Most popular posts

Recent posts

Archives

Download Browsealoud


My Top Blogs

Movable Type Content Management System Developed and Hosted by PRO IT Service

Swarnteams Completely Connected

Blog Directory