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I will look up that link. One for you in exchange - how horses pick their leaders. Most people think the stallion leads, but the alpha mares are the ones that run the show. How horses communicate and sort out that leadership is fascinating study. The relationship between humans and horses holds even more value in understanding an extrasensory approach to leadership.
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Roger & ditto on your link. Before I go on-topic, welcome to the forum.
I'm just across the river from you in Vancouver.
So, to the races. I haven't heard of the female horse leadership role, but I have no doubt of the female role in humans. I often think if someone was paying attention to the leadership roles that terrorists' wives play, we might get a better handle on solving some of the problems. Alas, I suppose like stallions, the men must by all means give at least the appearence they are in control. I don't know if Sun Tzu ever said specifically, but by example, he led from the back.
On the article, I find a fundamental botch in the study by this bit:
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This hypothesis is difficult to test on living animals such as birds or fish so two scientists performed an experiment with tiny waving flags. ...
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Difficult? Tough cookies!! Flags are not animals and ever will it be so. Animals react -well plants too - to immediate conditions while also contributing to those conditions, and so I doubt any direct corallary to the "industrial applications" the authors claim. That said, I'm all for the flag experiments as I'm a bit of a flow experiment enthusiast.
