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Re-imagining Organizations as Ecosystems – Sahana Chattopadhyay –

Charles Dickens wrote this is 1859. This still rings true 160 years later. We are on another such cusp of transformation. The world is literally and metaphorically dissolving before our eyes. The old…
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'I believe our organizations today have the power, capacity, and reach to wreak havoc or heal the planet.Organizations can become a healing force if they choose to be. Will it be easy? Of course not. Transformation is never easy. It requires boldness, imagination, intention, and the ability to hold space/be the container for such evolution to take place.'  Sahana Chattopadhyay

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Regenerative wellbeing – Benefit Mindset –

The organising idea, or paradigm, we use to make sense of wellbeing has profound implications for the quality of results we create. In this article, I want to share an emerging, “regenerative” view…
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'When we look at wellbeing through the generative pattern of regeneration; we come to the compelling realisation; to be well, is to inter-be well. We can’t be well beings by ourselves alone. Our wellbeing is intimately connected to the wellbeing of others and the wellbeing of the oceans, the forests, the birds, the bees and the climate. We are all in this together, and everything we do impacts the wellbeing of everything else'.

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What’s the Right Model: A Machine, A Living System or a Living Being?

What’s the Right Model: A Machine, A Living System or a Living Being? | Adaptive Leadership and Cultures | Scoop.it
When the modern-day corporation was being developed, the current worldview was defined by Newtonian physics viewpoint. But is organization as machine the right model for today? Can it be responsive enough?  What are the alternatives? Newtonian view is the world is like a great mechanical clock, a set of discreet parts, ticking along as a perfect …
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Organisational evolution and the shift from the analogy of the organisation as machine through ecosystems to living systems. 'Living systems not only respond to their environment, they create and recreate themselves to fit their environment'.

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