Unwrapping the Gift Economy
It has become popular to declare that we need to move to a gift economy, in which we share more freely and value community more deeply, and in which our relationships are less often money-based and transactional. Clearly, this is an important and appealing...The patterns of living systems: a lens into the middle east?
For the past ten years, my research and consulting work has focused on the basic pattern of all living systems. I see that same pattern at play in the Middle East now, and I think it offers an interesting lens for understanding what’s going on there. The...Living Systems: Self-organizing or Self-integrating?
This discussion originated in a conference call around the Humanity 4.0 slideshow. The call was hosted by FourYears.Go. It continued in a series of incredibly rich emails among participants, and I thought I’d move it here in the hope of sharing what we’re...
So your organization is a living system…now what?
Earlier this week, a new collaborator asked me for a few guiding principles that go along with thinking of an organization as a living system. “Just give me a few sentences that I can share with my colleagues,” he said. As I anticipated, it was a...
The Key to Sustainability
My work is based on a view of organizations as living systems. Why is this important? It’s the key to sustainability, in every sense of the word. For humanity, and even for most organizations, the challenges we face are too complex and too urgent to solve with...Page 2 of 2
