Living Organisations

Living Organisations® - a GreenPrint for an Organisational Ecology

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My work on Living Organisations stems from a concern to create working environments and cultures that represented a great place for employees to invest their lives in.  After all, our time is our life, and our life is our time.  When we spend so much time at work, there develops a need for that time to be well spent... and not to reach the end of our working lives regretting that we gave "the best years of our lives" to a cause we did not value.

Since first creating the model, I have come to realise, in addition, the importance of organisations taking on the moral responsibilities of being a ‘personality‘.  Corporations have many of the rights of an individual in western culture.  They can own and sell property, as well as many other commercial acts that were previously only available to human beings.  The key difference lays in their limited liability, accountability and responsibility.  I therefore suggest that Living Organisations will need to take on a moral identity that transcends the original purely biological model.

The bottom line...

The bottom line is that Living Organisations® offers organisations a model for moving towards joie de vivre, sustainability, and a positive ecological footprint on the Earth.