Organizational Integrity: How to Apply the Wisdom of the Body to Develop Healthy Organizations
All around us, we see living systems in plants, animals, and human beings. Our environment is alive, vibrant, and full of innate wisdom. Even the stars and planets speak in the language of ancient folklore to those who have ears to hear. Our very lives depend on this interdependence and on the myriad connections that surround us. Nonetheless, many people experience organizations as inert, bureaucratic, inflexible obstacles to innovation and human initiative. People have struggled for years under the weight of apathy in organizations such as large school systems, corporations, and government agencies such as FEMA.
Organizational Integrity attempts to reclaim and reconcile organizational dynamics with living systems. The wisdom found in human organs, minerals, planets, and even sacred geometry is used to reinvent organizations. Organizations are supposed to serve, and their forms and structures should mirror the living systems of those who have come together with common purpose. We need to change our ideas of organizations and establish a new paradigm so that future organizations will be worthy of the people in them.
Dr. Finser makes the case that we need a new ecology of organizations, and that now is time for a new revolution that creates dynamic, living organizations by the people and for the people. Moreover, he shows us how to achieve this seemingly impossible task by “organ-izing” organizations. Just as democracy has transformed much of the world, through the genius of the human body we can transform organizations into living systems that serve and protect human interests.
Here is a truly unique approach to the age-old process of bringing people together in healthy, effective organizations to better the world in which we live.
C O N T E N T S:
Part I: Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy
The Complete Human Being
Beyond Memories
Vocation
The Long Journey
Part II: Organs and Organ-izations
Heart Knowledge
The Kidney
The Liver
The Spleen
The Lungs
Dual Organs
Corpus Callosum and Other Matters
Part III: Other Aspects of Human Physiology
Is there a Skeleton in your Closet?
Salt, Mercury, Sulfur
Sense Perception: Eye and Ear
Part IV: Leadership
Testing Our Metal as Leaders
Planetary Influences
The Geometry of Groups
Systems Thinking
Part V: Healthy Organ-izations
What is a Healthy Organ-ization?
The Consultation Process
The Lily and the Rose
Appendices
About the Author
Torin M. Finser, PhD, has served Waldorf education for more than four decades, first as a class teacher and later as the Director and faculty member of the Waldorf Teacher Education Program at Antioch University New England. A former General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America, he also helped found the Center for Anthroposophy in New Hampshire. His research and writings have reached people all over the world, including several books that have been translated into multiple languages. Torin has served as a consultant, workshop leader, and keynote speaker at numerous conferences. He is married to Karine, has six children, and is also now a very happy grandfather!
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