With each passing year, organizations act more and more like living entities thanks to the evolution of technology. The notion that organizations might be a form of life is a radical perspective. It is useful as metaphor, but through this and future articles, I hope to persuade you that an “organization as life” perspective is

You may have never heard of “Deliberately Developmental Organizations.”  I hadn’t, until yesterday, but it’s an idea that’s worth understanding because it appeals to some very basic human desires and because it fits nicely the idea of “regenerative business,” which I occasionally write about on this site. What is a “Deliberately Developmental Organization”? Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey

Many of us who have worked in organizations fool ourselves into believing something that just isn’t really true. We think of organizational boundaries as something real, when in fact, it’s just a concept. Sure, boundaries matter from a legal point of view, but that perspective also creates a distortive field that obscures a more important