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Brief Introduction Patterns of relationship and communication in natural ecosystems evolve inclusionally through the dynamic balancing and channelling of energy flows. By contrast, human organisations based on objective rationality are ordered in accord with abstract prescriptive rules, regulations and economic principles that support the imposition of hierarchical power. They may hence generally be or become environmentally unsustainable and evolutionarily stultified. Comparison between the structure and dynamics of human and natural organisations may hence show up similarities and differences that offer helpful insights into possibilities for transforming our collective enterprises into more ergonomic and creative formations. As a general principle, natural organisations tend to have fluid dynamic boundaries, open internal communication space, a capacity for degeneration and regeneration, an absence of central executive agency and a high degree of receptivity and responsiveness to their neighbourhood. Rationalistic human organisations commonly have complicated and restrictive internal communication channels and hierarchies, inflexible boundaries, inequitable distribution of work load and resources, and conflict between specialists and generalists, management and workers, supply and demand. Whereas natural organisations form dynamic, labyrinthine networks of flow, rationalistic systems form demoralising webs of attachments that trap and dissipate rather than release and distribute creative potential. Contacts Relevant Writings
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