{"id":5933,"date":"2014-09-22T23:09:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T15:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2016-11-24T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T02:00:15","slug":"organismic-company-organic-monolithic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/organismic-company-organic-monolithic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Organismic Company. Think Organic, not Monolithic!"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Yes, I’ve been referring to the organismic company for a while now. And yes, I’ve been coming across posts and articles talking about how to make “Industrial Age” companies more organic, how to have better Job Descriptions, how to have more flexible Organization Charts and how to better tap on the vast Knowledge Bank that is present in all your employees. Of course, the best way to actually have an organismic company is to call on biomimicry, or biomimetics, if you like, and related disciplines so that our “Industrial Age” mindsets can understand better and perhaps get a first step towards actually becoming more organic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n One of the textbooks I used for my High School Biology course was “Life. Form and Function” or something like that. The title stuck in my mind because it didn’t sound like other biology textbooks. That title alone impressed upon me that life is designed to function, that every aspect of its form was meant to fulfill certain functions. I think all of us know that intrinsically, although we sometimes seem to forget or ignore the fact when it comes to things like people management, job descriptions, routes of advancement, etc. In such instances where we ought to apply operating principles derived from the way living things work, we forget those and default to the mechanistic way of doing things. Let’s see if we can help you become more organic in this post.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a>Why does your company exist? This is captured in your vision statement and translated into currently applicable practice by the mission statement. The “body corporate<\/a><\/strong><\/span>” has a sense of destiny that it is to fulfill. There are many ways to achieve that state, and the body corporate lives, moves and acts in accordance with how it will best fulfill its own destiny. Like any organism, the entire body corporate is composed of systems, organs, tissue and so on, and all of these are interconnected, remain engaged and act in unison and in support of each other. We are starting to discover more and more about just how complex living organisms really are. For instance, the same Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) strand, which is made by DNA, and which essentially makes proteins, is able to code for different proteins at different times, something which scientists have yet to figure out how. A simpler point of view notes that, if you happen to drop a brick on your unprotected toe, your whole body suffers the pain, not just the toe. If only the toe felt the pain, and your brain only said “Noted”, then the rest of the body would not notice that the toe is in pain, and might not do anything to relieve that pain. Sounds like what happens in organizations right now, doesn’t it?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n1. \u00a0 \u00a0 Function.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
2. \u00a0 \u00a0 Form.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n