I am always impressed at how Nature is constantly finding ways to cultivate conditions for evolution over the long term. For example, Type I ecologies are filled with weeds and annuals because the ground is not conducive to bulbs or shrubs. As those weeds and annuals...
You may be thinking that this blog title sounds ridiculous because everyone knows that all of our organizations, corporations, and political structures are designed to be hierarchies. With just one look at the organizational chart, we know who is at the top of the...
We are now headed into our third year of a global pandemic if you start the clock when COVID-19 appeared in China. This prolonged time of adaptation has tested us on so many levels. It has caused us to see the fragility of our health, education, economic, social, and...
Usually, we think of ROI in financial terms. Are the investments we make measurable and worth what we are spending? This kind of thinking has some background assumptions that limit how we generate costs and benefits of spending choices when it comes to less tangible...
When bees outgrow their hive the queen bee doesn’t direct the process of finding a larger place. Instead the bees anticipate the need and the scouts go in search of a new hive on their own. As each scout bee comes back, they do a specific “bee dance” – where...
