All memos tagged #companies-that-mimic-life

'Companies that Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance' is a book by Joseph Bragdon that chronicles the radical transformation taking root in the corporate world. Industrial...

Openness to feedback is the capacity of an organization to listen, learn, and adapt continuously in response to signals from its internal and external environments. One of the Six Lifelike Qualities...

Consciousness is the state or condition of being conscious, encompassing awareness and perception. In organizational contexts, consciousness of capabilities, interdependencies, and limits is the...

Living Asset Stewardship (LAS) is a practice of placing a higher value on living assets (people and Nature) than nonliving capital assets (money). Life-mimicking companies, Joseph Bragdon writes in...

The Six Lifelike Qualities are the core attributes identified in Companies that Mimic Life by Joseph Bragdon as distinguishing organizations that operate like living systems from those that operate...

Symbiotic behaviors describe strategic and operational choices that align the success of the individual or organization with the health of the larger systems in which they participate. As one of the...

Frugal instincts describe the disciplined optimization of resource use, modeled on nature’s tendency to achieve maximum effect with minimal waste. As one of the Six Lifelike Qualities described in...

Decentralized, self-organizing networked structures describe organizational architectures in which autonomous units coordinate organically to serve the health of the whole system. One of the Six...

Regenerative life strategies refer to the adoption of business practices and cultural norms that renew and enhance an organization’s core assets over time. One of the Six Lifelike Qualities in...

Three Instruments refers to a conceptual framework for innovation and leadership that emphasizes the integration of three core capacities: the Open Mind (Intellectual Intelligence (IQ)), the Open...

Management by Results (MBR) is typical of Age of Separation. Contexts companies-that-mimic-life (See: Companies that Mimic Life)

We are in the midst of a metamorphic period that's unlike anything the world has seen since the Late Middle Ages. There is a transformative change in the form of the human institutions now emerging...

Ecocentric Capitalism is "life-first" thinking within the scope of commercial enterprise; departure from the bottom-line-first approach of Egocentric Capitalism and return to the stewardship of our...

Otto Scharmer, the cofounder of the innovative Presencing Institute and U.Lab at MIT, frames the transition from ego to eco in terms of discovering and cultivating the social field in which we...

The Global Living Asset Management Performance (LAMP) Index is a learning laboratory of sixty (60) corporate pioneers in Living Asset Stewardship (LAS) (LAS). It was conceived as a research project...

Management by Means (MBM) is a business management approach that recognizes its employees are the means by which companies achieve their results, that learning is the means by which employees grow...

Joseph Bragdon dedicated Companies that Mimic Life to Donella (Dana) Meadows, who "[...] understood that transformative change—regenerating the Earth's over-stressed biosphere and reforming broken...