Ken (The BumbleBee)

Bioteams, high performing teams, virtual teams, collaboration and business simulation games.

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@DanielMezick @LogTech1999 Hi Daniel

I disagree. The purpose of management development is not to improve systems or change policies but to help managers be more effective navigating the policies and systems already in place. It’s the role of business operations to change these things not L&D.

Ken

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@MarioNawfal Kill one of them with the knife then the two survivors share an apple each

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Every Leader needs Lens-based thinking skills – a simple but powerful technique described on one page
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We often get asked about what it takes to develop a totally custom simulation for an organization. Also if there are ways to do it quickly!
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A Process for Safely Acquiring New High Visibility Leadership Skills https://t.co/rpbTfnhl18

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How to Mobilize a High Performing Team fast using “Goals, Roles and Souls”
https://t.co/mYfYqSicQB

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Business Simulations: Face-to-Face, Virtual or Hybrid - the 4 main options!
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One of the deadliest invisible killers in teams is the perception of unfairness: that some are rewarded beyond which their contribution merits.

https://t.co/XB5z1Mxh6Q

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In How To Innovate And Create New Business Opportunities When You Are A Small Fish: Here Comes The VEN, Robin Good and Ken Thompson argue that when you are a small fish, it may appear pretty difficult, if not altogether out of your reach, to be able to

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Ori Brafman introduces his forthcoming book, "Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior" by sharing a very sobering tale which illustrates how even the most trusted professionals (airline pilots) can depart wildly from the rational under

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Teams, networks, groups and their members behave in an irrational way but quite predictably so. A good team leader will understand this and use it to everyone’s advantage. One key point is to knowing each team members motivations and whether they are

https://t.co/1oz2P6XLDh

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Sometimes the Bee-team is the A-team: the importance of an automatic team swarm response to threats and opportunities.

Swarming: Exceptionally agile group co-ordination whilst on the move
This week we discovered two wasp nests - one in the garden and

https://t.co/ayye6dMzuH

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In this article I contend that you will have a much better understanding of social systems (teams, groups, networks and communities) if you start to look at them through the unique lens of the well-established philosophical principles of living systems

https://t.co/23Ml1XZOYM

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One of the aspects of bioteams in nature 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 move them

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Your teams are too big: break them up.Newspapers sometimes run contests to see who can produce the best summary of a epic book in one hundred words or less. Here is my 100-word version of "The maximumteam size for effective working" drawing from an

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We are used to having to work very hard to make collaboration happen in teams and groups however sometimes it just emerges.

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Managing any team, network or group becomes a whole lot simpler if you understand the three rings of member commitment.

I define the three rings as the Inner Ring, Middle Ring and Outer Ring.
For something so fundamental I was amazed to find there

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The way a team decides to decide is one of the most important decisions it makes. In the excellent book, "Why Teams Don't Work" the authors, Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley, identify seven key decision-making methods for teams. #HighPerformingTeams

https://t.co/ECWGb94Xl0

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One of the biggest problems in teams, communities and networks, whether co-located or virtual, is freeriding (aka freeloading or lurking or loafing) where certain team members do not pull their weight. Here are 5 things you can do about it.

https://t.co/WUNbgN0LmA

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The Delphi Technique is a proven way to harness collective group intelligence (popularly known as the wisdom of crowds) in a wide range of applications.

IntroductionDelphi has been around since the 1950’s with a large body of support material, case

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