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The Unplanned Organization: Learning from Nature's Emergent Creativity, by Margaret Wheatley | DailyGood

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THE UNPLANNED ORGANIZATION: LEARNING FROM NATURE'S EMERGENT CREATIVITY From Noetic Sciences Review #37, Spring 1996 In my work with large organizations, one of the questions we often ask is, "How would we work differently if we really understood that we are truly self-organizing?" The first thing we recognize is that, just like individuals, the organizations we create have a natural tendency to change, to develop. This is completely counter to the current mantra of organizational life: "People resist change. People fear change. People hate change." Instead, in a self-organizing world, we see change as a power, a presence, a capacity, that is available. It's part of the way the world works -- a spontaneous movement toward new forms of order, new patterns of creativity. We live in a world that is self-organizing. Life is capable of creating patterns and structures and organization all the time, without conscious rational direction, planning, or control, all of the things that many of us

The Unplanned Organization: Learning From Nature's Emergent Creativity, by Margaret Wheatley | DailyGood Back to Stories The Unplanned Organization: Learning From Nature's Emergent Creativity By Margaret Wheatley Jun 15, 2018 18 min read Source: margaretwheatley.com Listen English Available Languages English Amharic Arabic Basque Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Cherokee Chinese (PRC) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Filipino Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Korean Latvian Lithuanian Malay Malayalam Marathi Norwegian Polish

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