Self-Organizing Wholo'Team Intelligence. Natural Principles have been used for millions of years. They work. This points to Global Action through Team Evolution.

1. FlownetWholo’Teams
Wholonomics
Philip Randolph Lilien

2. Principles of Self-Organizing Wholo’Team Intelligence
 The fastest computers are flows processing simultaneously
through multiple dimensions. As does Collective Intelligence.
 Collective intelligence is much greater than the centralized control
grid.We can learn to manifest at a faster rates. Arrive at solutions
no individual can have conception of. Collective Creation dwarf
individual concepts.
 Wholonomic Flownet Wholo’Teams will allow us to make critical
decisions correctly even if we all can not agree. InWHolomid
Space, no one is in charge.The Whole is the Charge.
 We have no over-aching priests or politicians nor presidents or
commissars. Each is manager of their sovereign domain across the
scale and chain and grid of Being.

3. The Changing Nature ofTeams
 It is now rare to find a team who all know each other, sit in the same work
area day by day, work the same hours, work within the one organization,
have a common business culture and enjoy prior history of working
together.
 Wholo’teams are complex alliances with coreWholoship commitments with
different organizations, professions, locations, using different technology
platforms.Wholoships have different technology backgrounds.They
engage levels of involvement from aWholo’core to the occasional reviewers
from global concern to the concerns of a neighborhood.
 This is a very different model.The difference is so profound that we need a
new name - Virtual FlownetWholo’Teams.

4. NetFlowed
 NetFlowed rather than Networked means that the team is
made of individuals who are not always part of the same
team and even when they are, rarely share common
reporting lines rendering command and control methods
mute.
 Instead we use Manifestream Actions and Results that are
maintained until resolved. Actions and Results are the basis
of communication.

5. Virtual State ofWholo’Teams
 Virtual means that the team is more than less dependent on Internet
technologies.Virtual also means that the team operates with virtual
capacity that is not physically present.This means each team grows
and shrinks its membership.
 This can make it harder to maintain a coherent sense of team and
purpose unless we can understand certain core principles.

6. The Challenge of Learning
to ManifestCollectiveVisionTogether
 Wholo’teams are more distributed and more complex.
 Despite the number of technologies available to assist team and
group working it is still exceptionally difficult to manage such teams.
 In some ways these technologies make things worse by distracting
the team members into technology experimentation rather than the
harder challenge of learning to work together and creating the
CollectiveVision.
 Wholo’teams understanding require a set of instructional guidelines
toWhat areWholo’Teams and How they operate.

7. Nature’s Secrets areThe Missing Ingredient
 Even if we master the technology of teams there will still be something
major missing that will stop our operating with the speed and agility
we need.
 Looking to natures' most successful teams we can see what are the
secrets of their longevity and dominance over millions of years of
changing environments.
 They all share a number of common natural principles that we can
apply to ourWholo’teams.

8. MatchingAncient Principles
Wholo’teams match these ancient principles to
be faster and more responsive.
Wholo’Teams get Manifestreams resolved and
Wholo’Current flow.

9. The Right Size is not Preordained
 Membranes that circumvent Whol’Teams are open to energy and
action (positivity) but closed to waste (negativity) but are not limited
to a certain size.They will organically grow to the size needed to
complete Actions and Results.
 Wholo’teams are composed of Wholoships. Right team size and
participation only emerge over time. Wholo’Teams keep looking for
useful new members until the actions and results of the
Manifestream are completed.Throughout the whole team lifetime,
part-time members, advisors and experts, guides and allies are
involved.
 Manifeststreams are like water within water. Manifeststreams are
composed of membrane braids of Actions and Results.

10. Assume Leadership - Empower Others
 Great players make other players great too.To reach your
best you will need support. Empower others to do their best
and they will free you up to do your best.

11. Co-operating Manifests
 Wholo’Teams align together by one or more Co-operating
Manifests, streams of action to achieve some important, urgent
and specific objective such as:
 Planning and launching of a major event
 Designing and running of a new program or initiative
 Developing and testing of a new process
 Running a campaign to open up new sectors
 Design and implementation of improved functional processes
 Planning and execution of managing and training initiatives

12. Challenges and Problems Faced byWholo’teams
 Why is it more difficult to operate a Wholo’Team than a traditional
team?
 The Flow Factor
 A Flowed team does not share common accountability structures, business
cultures and professional sensibilities.This makes it hard to agree standards,
accountability structures and sanctions for non-performance.
 TheVirtual Factor
 It is very difficult to manage the involvement, commitment and trust building
of a team operating "virtual capacity" because members constantly dip in and
out of the team and some of them may never be present together in any
physical meeting.

13. Challenges and Problems Faced byWholo’teams
 The Speed Factor
 Today's rapidly accelerating environment with its "Just do it -
now" business culture is not news to anybody.
 When you overlay this on top of the complexity already there in
Wholo’teams due toVirtual NetworkTechnology Factors it just
makes things all that more difficult. Doing a complex thing is ok if
I concentrate and take my time. Doing something very fast is ok
too if I can focus on it. But doing a complex thing very fast is
altogether much more stressful.
 TheTechnology Factor
 It would be great if the team could learn the team technologies

14. Wholo’Team Dynamics
 Recognition of the dynamic and living nature of the team itself
separate from its members.
 AWholo’team is a living thing in itself, more than the sum of its
members.The Wholo’team is whole.This allows more insightful
selection of the best course of action.
 Wholo’Teams are colonies which must be nurtured while
recognizing they are inherently unpredictable.
 TheWholo’Team is a kind of super-organism and needs to be
treated in ways that enhance and support its complex and
interconnected nature.

15. See the Wholo’team as a Whole
Once we can see the Wholo’team as a whole and not as the mere aggregation
of the individual parts that make it up, we can discover how much more
capable, reliable and efficient a Wholo’team can be.
 This forces you to rethink how you should nurture, organize and support
such teams and implies radically new approaches to:
 Team Mobilization and Change Management
 New Processes and Practices
 Team SupportTechnology
 OngoingTeam Coaching

16. Self-Management or Autonomy
 EachWholo’team Zero Point manage themselves in the context of
feedback so does not need to be directly told what to do.
 No more wait till told and obey orders.
 Wholo’teams are self-managed teams.This does not mean that there
is no leader but that every member is a leader in some domain
 Application of this trait allows aWholo’team to successfully address
the fundamental problem of accountability in a FlowedTeam Context.

17. JustAct
 Wholo’teams act according to simple agreements.They do
not seek permission from higher authorities before acting -
they just act.
 Communicate information not orders.

18. Non-verbal Broadcast Communication
 Wholo’teams develop superb communications that do not rely on
direct member-to-member communications. This is relevant
especially with teams at multiple locations with every one working
different hours and where members can't physically meet that often.
 Application of this non-verbal broadcast trait helps us to design the
team's communications in a way which eliminates communication
bottlenecks and redundancies. Wholo’Teams are built on signals not
orders.

19. Action Focused
 Wholo’teams solve problems and learn by rapid experimentation and
evolution.
 Wholo’teams have very concrete goals which are hard-wired into the
members but the members don't have any actual strategies or plans for
achieving them.They work by rapid experimentation and feedback. If
something works and solves the problem it gets reinforced within their
collective set of responses for the next time - if not it dies.This broadcast
across the entire Wholomid Field increases wealth potential.
 Wholo’teams are action-focused.They act first and ask questions later.
 Application of this trait enables us to design simple team member rules of
amplified behavior and feedback mechanisms enabling teams to rapidly
evolve improved effectiveness.

20. Wholo’teams Only have Leaders
 Everyone contributes to the well being of the team and to achieving the
agreed goals.
 In aWholo’team there are no leaders issuing orders, as everyone is
broadcasting relevant bits of information just-in-time to all other team
members.
 Leaders are not needed as there are no rigid permission structures and any
team member can take timely action relative the information received. Direct
responsible individual action is supported, acknowledged and facilitated.
 This is further supported byWHolomidValue.
 Transparency and clearly agreed policies are the foundations for this to
happen.

21. Sending OutTimely Information
 Wholo’Teams broadcast information bits and expect receiving
teammates to take appropriate action just-in-time.
 Wholo’teams evolve simple approaches to communicate urgent
information widely and instantly without doing anything more
than sending out just-in-time information bits and letting
everyone take action in an independent fashion.
 AValueWealth Field.

22. Wholo’Teams do not need to take Orders
 Orders have higher information complexity than situational information
and are more difficult to assemble and broadcast quickly to teammates.
 Orders are more likely to contain errors and to be misunderstood.
 Check this out by experimenting with work colleagues by giving out
alternatively information bits and order information.You will discover
that when you give order information you inevitably have to supply
considerable more situational information to ensure that the order is
properly understood.
 Nature has evolved an distributed approach to message transmission
coupled with enough distributed self-intelligence within each of the
receivers to be able to know what to do with the transmission.

23. Distributed Intelligence
 Wholo’Team members have enormous local distributed intelligence with their
mind and spirit and tools for working out the required action.
 Learning from nature means that teammates must be trained to expect
information rather than orders and must be able to quickly work out
appropriate responses without having to be told.
 If we start providing just-in-time information bits to a newWholo’team which
has been exposed only to receiving "orders" and "instructions" there will only
be one response, team paralysis.
 The team members will digest the information but will not take action. Hence
education is needed here.

24. Speed is the Essence
 Information needs to be communicated to all teammates quickly
 Members of a team are generally very busy and they don't have the time to
read and understand complex instructions.
 They want brief, synthetic, focused, short messages.
 One-way is okay.When an ant or a bee broadcasts a message to another
ant or bee it doesn't wait for a response.
 Why? In Nature speed is the essence.
 If nature's teams waited for a response they would probably get eaten
before it arrived.They rely on razor sharp fast responses to survive.

25. Nature’sTeams
 Nature's teams subjugate everything to speed.
 Speed enables living animals to move to more powerful positions further up
their ecosystem.
 Speed is the essential difference between the species at the top and bottom
of the food chain.
 The difference between a plant and an insect or animal is speed.
 Natures' teams are communicating information rather than orders, it follows
that their communications are broadcast rather than conversational.
 Therefore these messages do not need responses, being one-way.This
enables very fast team reactions.

26. NotWaiting for a Response
 Waiting for a response to electronic communications
drastically hampers the Wholo’team's speed, agility and
responsiveness. Everything stops while somebody does not
reply or somebody is away from his or her screen or
someone's email gets bounced.
 Wholo’teams adopt information for action and one-way
messaging.

27. Wholo’teams expect information not orders
 Aviation has two critical communication terms universally used in all
radio transmissions - 'Roger' and 'Wilco'.
 Wilco means I have received your message andWill Comply with it.
 Roger means I have received your message but I may or may not act on
it.
 AWholo’team needs to find a way to automatically achieve Roger
minimizing all communications requiring aWilco.
 Use two-way messages where you absolutely need to have a clear-
cut response, where there is unavoidable complexity or where you
require a particular bit of info.

28. DistributeWisdom
 Wholo’teams model nature by becoming teams of peers and leaders
where every member understands that it is central to their role as a
Wholo’team member on the look-out for just-in-time critical
information which may be of value to the whole.
 In an ant colony, the Queen's job is to reproduce not try to control
what all the other ants do.
 Some colonies can have 200 million members with the Queen having
no idea what each of colony members are doing at any moment.The
Queen Bee does not find the good nectar source or dance the dance.
The ant queen does not spot the ant from a rival colony out on a
scouting mission.

29. Vital Signs
 How do we make sure team members will know what info to send
out?
 How can we prevent them from constantly spamming with pet
topics, irrelevancies and trivia?
 Well, we need to clearly know what is vital and what is not.To
support this we need to have aWholo’team dashboard of vital
signs which always require immediate attention.

30. Act don't ask (permission granted)
 One way organisational teams protect themselves against the risk
of an individual making critical mistakes that can significantly affect
the rest of the team or theWholomid is by using Permission
Structures.
 A permission structure is a structure regulating where action cannot
take place without some other approval. As far as possible this
should be minimal.

31. Permission Structures
 Effective teams constantly challenge their existing permission
structures, where an action cannot happen without somebody
else's permission.
 For each of these structures teams should ask, if the cost of the
control is greater than the cost of the potential losses if someone
acts without permission?

32. Act don't Ask raises Issues ofTrust in Wholo’teams
 It is OK to use permission structures where you don't trust a team members skills.
 It is not OK to use permission structures where you don't trust a team members
motives or commitment. In these situations you need to challenge motives issues
and if necessary find replacements for such team members.
 Let team members act with as much freedom as possible but log all actions and who
took them.
 Recorded information available to all team members, transparency with feedback.
 Wholo’Teams through their Wholomid portal engages in a review process where
team member actions are regularly reviewed by the whole team in the spirit of
openness and learning.

33. Not about Issuing Orders
 Instead of issuing orders, nature's teams function by providing timely
information to the team members and then expecting them to take
appropriate action where needed
 Accountability is achieved through transparency systems.

34. Three Action Rules
 Rule 1 - Send out timely information - Communicate Information not Orders -
Use 1-way messages - Develop member autonomy and self-management
 Rule 2 - Everyone must broadcast - Enable "every member broadcasting" to
and from any device - DefineTeams "Vital Signs" - EstablishTeam Etiquette
and Behaviors
 Rule 3 - Act don't Ask, Permission Granted - Permit but log and track actions -
Challenge Permission Structures - Regular team review sessions
 Treat all members as leaders.

35. Wholo’IQ
 Everyone looks for team threats and opportunities It is not just for
the focalizer to share information on potential threats or
opportunities for theWholo’team.
 Every member’s responsibility is to constantly tap this team
intelligence making sure it is rapidly effectively communicated to
other team members who might need to know about it.

36. Always On
 24/7 message hotlines for team members.
 Wholo’teams take the messages via whichever device suits
each member best at any particular time in their day.

37. Syn’Optic Union
 External to theWholo’Team partners as treated as fully
trusted team members. Wholo’teams treat them identically
to their own internal team members in terms of transparency
and trust.

38. Flowitecture
 Wholo’team internal and external Flows
 Holo’teams pay attention to the collective flows and the flows of
each team member.
 This ensures adequate ties to get Manifests done well.
 Able to tap favors as needed from external parties.
 Ensures sufficient ties to quickly spot important changes and
warning signals from external market /operational environments.

39. Consistent Behaviors
 To be really effective Wholo’teams first put in place the foundations
by ensuring there are a basic core set of member behaviors which can
be guaranteed to be executed consistently by members at all times.
 Wholo’team members take an interest in anything which might affect
the ultimate success of their Manifests whether it’s within their
defined role or not.

40. Learn Co-operation Strategies
 Wholo’team members learn co-operation strategies.
 Real, raw, basic and undeclared motivations of each team
member is important to include.
 Win-Win is used as a collaboration strategy not as an
outcome.
 What's in it for me question important to address and fulfill
for each team member.

41. Action not Analysis isTheWay to Get It Done
 Act and move on. Don’t wait for feedback. Act again.This our formula for
rapid manifestation. Signal with directive information not as an order.
Then we can learn how hack the whole system.
 Experimentation, mutation and team review, not extensive planning,
design and preparation before trying out new things.
 Wholo’teams know that live controlled experimentation gets things right.
 Most things don’t work out as planned. No matter how well they are
analysed and designed.
 Wholo’teams quickly try out alternative actions in parallel in small safe
ways to find out what works best and then they build on and adapt the
most promising results.This is accelerated directed evolution in action.

42. Autopoiesis of Flow
 Goals and roles are in terms of the transformations intended in the
lives of the people and partners they engage with.
 Self-organizing Wholo’Flows enliven the IQ intelligence of the
Wholo’Team base.

43. FocusYour Potential
Potential is like light. It shines bright but becomes most
powerful and real when focused like a laser. An activated
Wholo’team knows its core values and life purpose.

44. CreateYour Strategy
 CreateYour Strategy. PlanTo ReachYour Potential.
The quickest route to failure is not having a game plan that
you follow. It will keep you clear. It will capitalize on your
strengths and compensate for your weaknesses.

45. Focus is achievingActions and Results
 Wholo’Teams Utilize Support. No one need Do It Alone.
Life is a team sport.We want great players as part of allWholo’teams
whose focus is achieving Actions and Results.

46. Build Momentum
 Take Action. Build Momentum. Execute. Execute. Execute. A
body in motion stays in motion.That means momentum.
Once you begin to execute your game plan things will begin
to happen effortlessly.

47. Just keep moving forward
 Keep DoingWhat Works. Learn From What Doesn't.
Continue moving forward. If something isn't working,
examine why not and choose an alternate approach. Just
keep moving forward with the valuable new information you
are acquiring.

48. Manage Opportunities
 Prepare for Greater Results. Momentum will accelerate
results - and naturally produce more opportunities.Think of
riding a bike down a big hill. It can be effortless while
producing great velocity, but if you take your eyes off the
road too long - watch out! Maintain your values and narrow
your focus!

49. Become SuperConductive
 Become SuperConductive to the Best in Life.
You are a leader now.You are a winner.This may be a new feeling.
Stand in it. Expect the best from life, yourself and those around you.
Reduce resistance and friction. Let the energy flow. A winning
attitude triumphs over talent alone.

50. Contribute
 Acknowledge WhatYou Have. Contribute to Others.
What's the point of playing if you don't relish the joy of
having played it well? And, there is no joy so great as sharing
the experience with others, contributing to their successes as
well.

51. Quotes
 Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. -- Charles F.
Kettering, 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against
you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment
longer, never give up then--for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896,
American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and
talk about the problems. - BrianTracy, AmericanTrainer,
Speaker, Author, Businessman

52. Naturally Clean Up our Messes
 We naturally Clean Up our Messes. Make Space For Playing
Fully.
Before you can put new goodies on your plate, you need to
clean up your act.This includes closets and anything you're
hiding in closets.To play fully you need a clean slate of
integrity as well as a clean environment.