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...
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...
Nature depends on self-organization to generate excellent results without a heavy “supervisory” footprint. If we wrote job descriptions that were designed to help employees see the interdependence of their work environment and work collaboratively to serve the higher...
There is an old Zen saying, “Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and grass grows by itself.” It is a beautiful reminder of the number of things in this world that happen naturally. Nature depends on self-organization. Growing grass is a self-organizing...
