Written to a colleague on LinkedIn:
“As for new organizational forms, I have become more and more convinced that we must replace our notions of structural permanence and semi-permeable boundaries with clarity about the value core, an inquiry based approach to seeking new purposes, and incredible fluidity about structural responses to those two, that situates structure as emergent, dynamic, modular, contingent, etc., and existing in complex interactions among three “strange attractors” of community, results, and core values. Boundaries become completely open. Networks (integration mechanisms) replace hierarchies and bureaucratic structures. The only routine things are those systems that are routine because they can be and support the dynamism of the rest, conserving energy for substantive work…”
