Coordination Without Central Control. Huh?

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How are people coordinating work when there is no central control? You might read about all this self-organizing, no-command, treehugging teams, but you just keep on wondering how this can work?

Ted.com brings us again a great presentation that provides us with the answer to how ants do exactly this. Watch it, and watch it till the end. You’ll be amazed about the simplicity and effectiveness.

Thanks to BioTeams.com for pointing out this video.

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  1. You Decide How You Communicate: Rules Of Engagement — Project Shrink on March 30, 2009

    [...] don’t need central control to get the work coordinated. They use a simple and effective way to communicate and make individual decisions based upon the information. Ants are hardwired to work [...]

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