Real change arises from the desire and agency of individuals who see an audacious possibility on their horizon and are willing to try almost anything to make it happen.

my best effort to understand what makes people whole, creative, and capable of making valuable contributions to successful businesses.

It is possible and important to innovate with regard to management, production, distribution, customer relations, marketing, supply system, investment, and at least a hundred other arenas.

Human beings create systems in order to manage what would otherwise be a chaotic experience of the world. A system (for example, an economy) creates a pattern within which we can engage in a recurring process (such as economic exchange) toward a particular purpose (in this case, wealth creation). Once we have a system, we can examine its effects an

Human development builds a company’s capacity to generate the thinking that will evolve its operations, industry, society, and world. Designing work systems to grow this capability in every member of the organization is essential. This, I believe, is the only way to create a business that consistently produces enlightened, disruptive innovation in

work design that intentionally develops people’s capacities and capabilities.

From my perspective, the potential for disruptive innovation exists in every aspect of a business, not just in its offerings. It is possible and important to innovate with regard to management, production, distribution, customer relations, marketing, supply system, investment, and at least a hundred other arenas. Foundational to all of these is inn

Are you a pioneering business leader, a decision maker who is responsible for setting direction in your organization or for designing and implementing the way people work? Then I want this book to help you build financial success while blowing the roof off the creative potential of your team.

As part of the work design, each individual commits to making an extraordinary contribution and is given the support needed to carry through on that promise. This is a condition of employment. As a result, a regenerative business moves from making incremental improvements in what exists to making radical breakthroughs in brand new territory.