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How Does Nature Define Profit?

How Does Nature Define Profit?

by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Feb 14, 2019 | Leading from the Roots, Organizations

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...
What if We Trust our Employees?

What if We Trust our Employees?

by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Feb 7, 2019 | Leading from the Roots, Organizations

What changes if we trust our employees? Does that change how we supervise? What do we use as a criterion for good performance? It seems like this question should be obvious, however, management and leadership literature is filled with language that suggests manager...
Compost and Leadership: Organizational Lessons

Compost and Leadership: Organizational Lessons

by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Jan 24, 2019 | Leading from the Roots, Organizations

If you are a gardener, you are familiar with weeds. Weeds are abundant in a garden and weeding is a constant activity in the summer. Some gardeners compost weeds to turn it into nutrient-rich soil that can be recycled back into their gardens, others bag them up and...
Employee Transitions and Living Bridges

Employee Transitions and Living Bridges

by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Jan 17, 2019 | Leading from the Roots, Organizations

Nature has a beautiful way of recycling nutrients. A legacy tree in a forest will continue to give nutrients back to plants and species five times the length of its lifetime after it dies. If a tree lives to 500 years, it will still be contributing nutrients for 2,500...
Generous By Nature: Natural Occurrence of Interdependence

Generous By Nature: Natural Occurrence of Interdependence

by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Jan 11, 2019 | Leading from the Roots, Organizations

Nature starts with two generous acts of interdependence. The first is that it provides sunlight, a free resource that makes life possible on earth. Nature runs on sunlight, but sunlight alone cannot generate life. Its energy must be transformed into useable nutrients...
The Relationship Between Organizational Feedback and Dysfunction

The Relationship Between Organizational Feedback and Dysfunction

by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Jan 3, 2019 | Leading from the Roots, Organizations

Nature has many things to teach us about the importance of organizational feedback. In nature, feedback is designed to help the ecosystem maintain a dynamic balance and remain resilient. Feedback plays the important function of curbing excess from within the whole...
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