Over the past few years, my colleagues and I have hosted monthly sessions with the goal of building a Regenerative Leadership Community. During these calls, we’re expanding on many ideas involving regenerative business practices, the adaptive cycle, and of course,...
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...
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...
I had a conversation recently with a young MBA student who had read my book Leading from the Roots: Nature Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World. The student wanted to know more about the concept of unleashing. In the book, I propose new leadership questions...
A principle of systems thinking is that we need to see connections within our systems to understand and to begin optimizing the whole. That’s because over time connections within a system create relationships and strengthen interdependence. Interdependence in turn...
