Understanding Living Systems

As we discuss in Section 4.3, the essential properties of a living system are emergent properties – properties that are not found in any of the parts but emerge at the level of the system as a whole.

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

In Reflections on Evolutionary Activism, Tom Atlee highlights three evolutionary dynamics: i) integration of diversity, ii) constant alignment with reality, and iii) self-interest rooted in the wellbeing of the whole.

To understand how an organism works we must understand its balancing processes—those that are explicit and implicit.