Today’s (virtual) teams have yet to realize their full potential. They could learn a lot from Mother Nature’s teams. In episode 30 of The Project Shrink I am talking to Ken Thompson about “Bioteams”. Ken has used lessons from nature to provide us with insights and techniques on how to run teams more effective.

In this interview we discuss concepts like facilitated self-organization and distributed leadership.

Ken Thompson is an former software engineer, project manager and expert practitioner in the area of bioteaming, swarming, virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities, virtual teams and management simulation and has published two books, including: “Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature’s Best Designs”.

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For more information check out Bioteams.com or read the Bioteaming Manifesto.

Leadership skills are critical for Project Managers. In this episode of The Project Shrink Podcast leadership and strategy expert Art Petty is answering two essential questions:

• Why Are Leadership Skills Critical For The Project Manager?
• How To Improve Your Leadership Skills?

I am a huge fan of the blog of Art Petty. It is a great resource for aspiring leaders and you can download the free ebook “Leadership And The Project Manager“.

Most people would like to run away when a conflict in the team arises. Should you run away or should you stay?

If a Project Manager spots a conflict between two team members, should he intervene?

These are important questions for any Project Leader, and they will be answered in episode 25 of The Project Shrink Podcast.

In this episode I am talking to Christina Bowen about conflict resolution in project teams. Christina is lead facilitator and founder of Advance Facilitation.

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You’ll love this episode about leadership.

In Episode 19 of The Project Shrink Podcast I am talking to Dave Logan about Tribal Leadership. Dave is a best-selling author, an expert in cultural transformation in the workplace, a senior partner at CultureSync and on the faculty of the Marshall School of Business.

He co-authored the book Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization. This book describes a ten-year, 24,000-person study that shows corporate leaders how they can use their tribes.

You can watch the episode below or follow this link.

The topic of this episode of The Project Shrink Podcast is “Adaptive Leadership”. I am talking to Milton Friesen, author of the book “Ingenuity Arts”. Adaptive leadership is critical for the success of today’s organizations. His book explains how adaptive leaders think.

Ingenuity Arts argues that current research into complex adaptive systems can be a significant asset in designing and leading adaptive organizations that will thrive amid a pace of change that continues to increase.

In this interview Milton will explain adaptive leadership and the role of Ingenuity Arts. For more information about the book, visit his website IngenuityArts.com.

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