{"id":1189,"date":"2007-09-18T08:31:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/team-based-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T21:36:37","slug":"team-based-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/team-based-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Team-Based Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I haven&#8217;t heard of this book until now, but it sounds most interesting &#8211; <em>Teaching an Anthill to Fetch: Developing Collaborative Intelligence @ Work<\/em>.  The book is profiled in the BusinessWeek.com article <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/careers\/content\/sep2007\/ca20070911_813989.htm?campaign_id=rss_null\">Building a Better Team<\/a>.  From the author:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Teaching an Anthill to Fetch<\/em> is a metaphor for the challenge of creating a significant level of collaborative intelligence in a system. It applies equally whether it is a team, a business, or an entire organization. The title also poses a question: Is it possible to create change at a micro level that will have s<em>(sic)<\/em> predictable large-scale effects? In my opinion it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think he is on to something here with the developing Gen Y workforce.  They are networked like an anthill &#8211; it is an apt metaphor.  Here is the description from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here are some of the most important characteristics of a team with high CQ:<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac\u00a2 Is able to share the stress and strain evenly throughout the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac\u00a2 Achieves its objectives more through people and less through politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac\u00a2 Has a strong network of connection and support between its members. This accelerates learning, enabling the team&#8217;s reactions to be rapid and responsive to challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac\u00a2 Looks after its own: Individuals are not left to fend for themselves, and staff retention is high because people feel a strong sense of belonging.<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac\u00a2 Is well connected with other teams and with corporate objectives. Like a healthy organ in the body, it knows what its function is and serves the greater good through rough times and smooth.<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac\u00a2 Replenishes itself, growing its members, and is constantly learning to better adapt to its environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac\u00a2 Displays a strong sense of meaningful participation, which the members are all nourished by.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m intrigued by CQ in that it is not common for salespeople to be highly collaborative.  The lone wolf mentality still dominates the sales world, but I think that may be changing to some degree.  The Rock Star <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/team-selling\/\">posted on this topic<\/a> back in July and I think this article goes to the next level of change occurring in the workplace.  I believe Gen Y is the driver behind that change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I haven&#8217;t heard of this book until now, but it sounds most interesting &#8211; Teaching an Anthill to Fetch: Developing Collaborative Intelligence @ Work. The book is profiled in the BusinessWeek.com article Building a Better Team. From the author: Teaching an Anthill to Fetch is a metaphor for the challenge of creating a significant level of collaborative intelligence in a system. It applies equally whether it is a team, a business, or an entire organization. The title also poses a question: Is it possible to create change at a micro level that will have s(sic) predictable large-scale effects? In my opinion it is. I think he is on to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/team-based-intelligence\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-jb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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