The Regenerative Business

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.

In parallel with the development of an approach that focused on human growth, a third stream of thinking explored the implications of theories of complex living systems for work design.

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.

begins from the recognition that human beings share certain fundamental characteristics: • They have an innate desire to grow and improve. • They are social and benefit from opportunities to engage with and learn from one another. • They derive a sense of meaning and purpose from contributing to something larger than themselves.

The alternative is to design businesses from a unified and systemic philosophy of human development.

BUSINESSES AROUND THE WORLD have entered a rich and turbulent era of experimentation.

It rebounds by building the capacity to do and be more than it was before.

Shocks make a regenerative business better.

Nancy and Jane’s story illustrates seven important qualities of regenerative processes: • Wholeness • Potential • Reciprocity • Authenticity • Nestedness • Nodal intervention • Development of capability Here is how they showed up in Nancy’s unfolding realization.