Can you believe it? Ants are in the news again. And once again, if you’ll pardon the expression, it’s relevant!

Clear Point Consultants of Manchester, Massachusetts, worked ants into a recent newsletter article on best practices for managing remote teams.

“Did you know that ants have an instinctive lock on remote teamwork?” the article begins. “They’ve perfected the use of natural chemical messengers called pheromones to communicate over long distances. Without even trying, these tiny insects have mastered one of the most evolved forms of dispersed group communication on the planet.

“Okay, so you may not be interested in the finer points of bioteaming, and pheromones are definitely not going to replace your Blackberry as your communication method of choice. But if a little ant can be an effective remote team manager, so can you.”

Because Newforma Project Center facilitates remote work processes, we thought it might be a service to link to the article here:

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If you manage remote teams, it may be worth a few minutes to check your practices against those summarized in the article. For example, are you doing things to build trust? And do you meet the criteria for being the right person for the job in the first place?

(Newforma Marketing thanks Marge Hart for pointing us to this link!)