Organizations as Ecosystems
Exploring the way that human and non-human actors work and work together.
“Organizations as Ecosystems” is a research and writing project about the ways that organizations sense, react, learn, and change. Some outputs of this project will be regular essays and a corresponding set of readings and references.
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Essays
001 - Welcome to Organizations as Ecosystems
002 - Dancing with Pace Layers
003 - Debt and Time
004 - Tools are Divisive
005 - The Importance of Cultural Gardening
Readings
Readings are added as they are engaged with.
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility by Stewart Brand [Book]
Dancing with Systems by Donella Meadows [Post]
Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast by Leon Lin [Post]
The Culture Layer by Jorge Arango [Post]
Onward! by Clay Parker Jones [Post]
Middle-Status Conformity: Theoretical Restatement and Empirical Demonstration in Two Markets by Damon J. Phillips and Ezra W. Zuckerman [Paper]