The Age of Thrivability Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World eBook Michelle Holliday
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In The Age of Thrivability, Michelle Holliday offers a bold reinterpretation of human history and a clear course to a better future.
At the root of every major problem we face - individually and collectively - is the need for a new way of understanding ourselves, our work and the purpose and patterns of our lives. In contrast to the still-dominant mechanistic paradigm of the Industrial Era, an expanded story is emerging, this time with life solidly at the center of its plot. This new narrative invites us to see our organizations, communities — and even all of humanity — as dynamic, self-organizing, living systems.
To embrace this view and to operate effectively within it, you need to understand how to support a living system’s ability to thrive — its thrivability. With this knowledge, you can step into wise stewardship of life wherever you find it—and you find it everywhere.
As real-life stories throughout the book demonstrate, viewing our businesses and communities through this lens reveals tremendous new possibilities for success and sustainability. With mounting threats to the continued existence of life on Earth, nothing could be more important.
The Age of Thrivability represents a comprehensive guide, describing the nature of the transition humanity is undergoing and outlining a straightforward framework for enabling life to thrive within it. As real-life stories throughout the book demonstrate, viewing our businesses and communities through this lens reveals tremendous new possibilities for success and sustainability. In fact, in an increasingly complex world, aligning with life's elegant core patterns is the only viable option. And with mounting threats to the continued existence of life on Earth, nothing could be more important.
In all, The Age of Thrivability offers profound insights, practical guidance, and plenty of inspiration for organizational and community leaders—and for anyone who is deeply concerned about the future of humanity.
The Age of Thrivability Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World eBook Michelle Holliday
I purchased this book based on a recommendation and I have to say it was a fascinating read. It was also very easy to read and the author's personal voice really comes through. If you like business and you are able to see much bigger perspectives, you will enjoy this read. I was pleasantly surprised.I wasn't even aware that there's a thrivability movement around corporations and organizations and I thought this was fascinating. As someone who studied sciences in college, I have a natural interest in the concept of biological systems and how they behave. As a business person I also enjoy learning about business systems. However I've never found a book or article that ties the two together.
I am a management consultant in Silicon Valley, so I spend all of my time fixing companies and helping them figure out how to grow. Because of the nature of my work, most of the companies that I advise have problems at a number of levels, including organizationally. In fact, I thought the author's perspective that organizations effectively destroy the natural expression of life and living systems was spot-on. In other words, how can organizations succeed-- like any other living system-- if they squelch the unique qualities of the life forms that exist within them (i.e., the human beings and all their personally unique qualities). Corporations, it suggests, would thrive if they allow life within them to thrive. The author says it better, but the concept is very compelling.
This is an easy read, and it's surprisingly enjoyable as it melds very avant-garde business thinking with scientific insight. It's well worth the price, and it will expand your view of what business could be.
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Michelle's book is a vital contribution to organizational theory and human worldview, 3.8 billion years in the making! Her writing style is easy to follow for novices, and at the same time very much applicable to the CEO or complexity manager. Grateful for this paradigm-shifting reframe towards a Life-affirming view of what has been perceived as mechanistic for far too long! It'll be a treasure on my bookshelf for many years to come... ~Ben
"There's something happening here but what it is ain't exactly clear." This famous line from Buffalo Springfield's famous song "For what it's worth" accurately describes (to me) an undercurrent that's out there regarding the future of business and organizations and how they must evolve to deal with the tremendous challenges of the 21st century. Indeed, many are slowly but surely moving in new transformational directions unlike any changes in business seen in the past century. However, it's been difficult to put a finger on exactly what this change is. This book answers that question. The Age of Thrivability is the next chapter of humanity, with respect to how we organize, work, relate to each other and society, and so much more.
If you're like me and interested in transformational ways of thinking, especially with regards to business and organizations, there are plenty of good books out there, many of which have even turned into movements to drive change (Frederic Laloux's "Reinventing Organizations" comes to mind). However, as interesting and game-changing as many of them are, they can also sometimes be too narrow in scope. This may be fine when you want to dive into specific levers of change, but what has been lacking is something that puts all of them into context (without specifically calling them out). Thrivability provides an excellent and inspiring broad-stroke view of this new landscape -- a backdrop for transformational change. Once you understand the concept of Thrivability it will help put all of these other efforts into context, which is why I feel it's an important read.
It's also an easy and enjoyable read, mixed with interesting new concepts and inspiring case studies. You'll even come away with a new view (at least to me) on the history of mankind and how our collective mindset has evolved through the ages in what the book describes as four distinct eras. That historical context is so important to understanding the future.
If I had to add one area where I felt the book needed more depth was in its explanation of how the organizations cited in the case studies made the transformations they did. The stories are told at a high level, which for most people I'll admit, probably works best from an editorial perspective. For me, as a consultant that works with organizations going through change, I'm interested in more details of course.
The Age of Thrivability is like a primer for so much positive, yet little known change happening around us. It's the antidote to all the negativity currently out there and "the world has gone to hell in a handbasket" view that is so pervasive today. It will help you understand the direction that this positive undercurrent of change is heading (or could head with a lot more "stewardship" as the book talks about) and will open your eyes to a new way of thinking about the future of society -- one that's not left or right or even center for that matter; one that's on a whole new dimension. So, for what it's worth, I highly recommend The Age of Thrivability.
I purchased this book based on a recommendation and I have to say it was a fascinating read. It was also very easy to read and the author's personal voice really comes through. If you like business and you are able to see much bigger perspectives, you will enjoy this read. I was pleasantly surprised.
I wasn't even aware that there's a thrivability movement around corporations and organizations and I thought this was fascinating. As someone who studied sciences in college, I have a natural interest in the concept of biological systems and how they behave. As a business person I also enjoy learning about business systems. However I've never found a book or article that ties the two together.
I am a management consultant in Silicon Valley, so I spend all of my time fixing companies and helping them figure out how to grow. Because of the nature of my work, most of the companies that I advise have problems at a number of levels, including organizationally. In fact, I thought the author's perspective that organizations effectively destroy the natural expression of life and living systems was spot-on. In other words, how can organizations succeed-- like any other living system-- if they squelch the unique qualities of the life forms that exist within them (i.e., the human beings and all their personally unique qualities). Corporations, it suggests, would thrive if they allow life within them to thrive. The author says it better, but the concept is very compelling.
This is an easy read, and it's surprisingly enjoyable as it melds very avant-garde business thinking with scientific insight. It's well worth the price, and it will expand your view of what business could be.
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