Good Principles, But Nothing Actually About Emergent Org

To be sure, every organization would benefit from living these principles. But the principles themselves can be employed without becoming an emergent organization and thus still decline or fail. Assuming, as article title states, objective is to apply principles to create emergent orgs, the following is requisite:

1. Recognize all organizations are evolving systems and have lifecycles
2. Identify where the subject org is in its lifecycle
3. Identify org systems that the subject org is nested within (i.e., evolving system ecology)
4. Identify the trajectory of the evolving system ecology and its key characteristics
5. Identify the nine probable generic evolutionary options (including the status quo)
6. Focus on the key variables of the three emergent options
7. Identify the best emergent option fit for the subject org
8. Develop the strategy and tactics needed to execute evolution to preferred option

This is what I call market/organizational cartography. You can find discussion of this in articles on my Medium publication, A Passion to Evolve. In particular, Macroscopic Evolutionary Paradigm, and as applied, Doc Says — There Are Only 8 Types of Investors

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