When confronted with items too massive to transport by an individual Spider Dung Beetle, the stunningly resourceful insects work as mission-driven teams to overcome the barrier of object size. A fascinating article published this year by the Royal Society titled “Spider Dung Beetles: Coordinated Cooperative Transport without a Predefined Destination” found that “when forced to overcome a series of obstacles in their path, transport efficiency of pairs of beetles was higher than of solo males” and that the teams “closely coordinate the direction in which to push.” As organizations, it may serve us well to draw inspiration from the cooperative power displayed by these Sisyphus beetles when faced with seemingly insurmountable technical challenges.

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