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Innovation Lessons from Ants: Collaboratively Exploit and Explore

Posted 4 years ago Tagged “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind Ants and Innovation Blackberry Innovation Failure Jim Balsillie Jim Balslllie Quote Diversified species of ant uses chemical communication to inform other ants not to explore the same space multiple times. too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” who made of virtue of their lack of diversification once saying: “We are a very poorly diversified portfolio. It either goes to the moon or it crashes to the earth.”

Ants have many lessons to teach humans about surviving change, including innovation lessons, lessons in collaboration and organisational structure.

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