Regenerative Leadership

As we explored in Chapter 6, pioneers in green chemistry and material science, bio-inspired technologies, product design, architecture, industrial ecology, and community, urban and regional planning are already living the questions of regenerative design inspired by life’s principles.

a third stream of thinking explored the implications of theories of complex living systems for work design. 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. This provided t

I have been personally inspired by the realization that building a better business builds a better human being and a better democracy. A regenerative business grows the thinking capabilities and caring capacities of its members. This is precisely how one grows a more capable workforce and citizenry.

A regenerative approach to work design is powerful precisely because it provides a coherent worldview and a framework for integrating all dimensions of human and business development.