Authenticity is the degree to which one is true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character, despite external pressures. Becoming authentic is an ongoing process of self-discovery that includes realizing our personal and collective potential and acting on that potential. Part of the process is accepting  responsibility for our choices and their...

When Chaordic design principles are applied within an organization the result is a, sustainable, dynamic culture that withstands change. Developing a fully self-organizing, self-governing chaordic organisation is a deeply integrated, iterative process. The term Chaordic was coined by Dee Hock the founder and former CEO of the VISA credit card association. He...

In Fritjof Capra’s 2002 book The Hidden Connections he uses the principles of complexity theory to analyze human interactions. In order to be sustainable, the principles underlying our social institutions must be consistent with the organization that nature has evolved to sustain the web of life . In this book he shows how the theoretical ideas of science...

Company culture is defined as the ‘distinctive personality of the organization’. How individual behaviour impacts the working environment reveals and reflects the accepted culture.  Through attitudes about teamwork, problem solving, customer service, productivity, and quality, what is revealed is the embedded nature of ‘how things get done...

‘By encouraging executives to live a lie and pay daily homage to an inauthentic and unhealthy community, we are sapping the moral authority and strength of the business community. And we are causing many young people to think that they want to avoid it like the plague because they want to be authentic. For that reason, it is imperative that we...