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"The Organization Is Alive"

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To change an organization from within, it helps to understand four basic circulatory systems, analogous to the channels of communication in a living body.

Over the past 30 years, management thinkers have largely come to accept the idea that organizations are not machines; they are as unpredictable, unruly, self-organizing, and even sentient as any living beings. Gareth Morgan, Arie de Geus, Peter Senge, Meg Wheatley, and others have written eloquently about this. Even those who don't buy the idea of organizations being literally alive are bound to agree when writers such as Jon R. Katzenbach and Zia Khan (in their book, Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize

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Source: idealawg, 6 April 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).