Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communities, Institutions and Humans

The guiding principle for all of this was the activation, development, and nourishment of personal agency, informed by deep caring about and commitment to the effects this agency would have on the lives of other people.

These businesses inspire employees to use their initiative to create systemic effects that ripple out and improve communities, landscapes, and nations.

This approach made systems regeneration its primary concern and considerably broadened the focus of work design to include the improvement of all of the multiple, overlapping socioecological systems that a business is part of.

A regenerative approach is not something that you just add on to everything you’re already doing. It requires a radical re-envisioning of what business is and how it works.

In other words, people can learn to see essence and potential and work together creatively to manifest them.

Disruption takes know-how, which has to be grown into an organization. That is why this book focuses on work design.