I have no idea if the story below is true, but I want to use it as an example of interdependence. I think it demonstrates beautifully how interdependence shapes our relationships with each other if we truly believe in our connectedness. Here you go: An anthropologist...
Recently I had a chance to revisit decision-making when done in the context of thinking about your organization as a living system. Living systems behave differently and therefore, require us to reflect on the decision-making models we traditionally use. In nature,...
Nature can teach us a lot about the difference between facilitating organization and controlling a system. In fact, there seems to be hardly any controlling energy in nature at all. That’s because nature really doesn’t need a CEO at all. In nature, we...
It is traditional to define an organization’s health by the amount of profit it makes. But how does nature define profit and what lessons and implications might it have for how we lead our organizations? In nature, profit is defined by the evolution of the system. As...
In his book, Physics of the Future: How Science will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 Michio Kaku writes “…the future is already here; it is just unequally distributed.” In Physics of the Future Kaku shares his vision for AI, computers,...
The signs of spring have come to my part of the world in Minnesota. We’ve had a string of 40+ degree days and the snow has melted, at least for now. The ice has melted on the Mississippi River in front of my house. I live about a mile above a river dam, so it...
