Living Asset Stewardship (LAS) is a practice of placing a higher value on living assets (people and Nature) than nonliving capital assets (money). Life-mimicking companies, @Joseph Bragdon writes in @Companies that Mimic Life, tap into this intelligence by (1) mimicking natural processes in the ways they produce goods and services; and (2) awakening the spiritual intelligence of employees. The operating leverage of LAS resides in the speed of learning and adaptation. LAS is a skill that relies on a heightened corporate consciousness. Consciousness is a unique property of life and so, the more lifelike companies become, the more conscious they become. Companies that mimic life exhibit six lifelike qualities that are present in all life from single-cell organisms to large ecosystems. These six qualities are (1) decentralized, self-organizing @Networked Structures whose component parts serve the health of the whole; (2) @Regenerative Life Strategies that increase opportunities for survival, reproduction, and improvement of cultural DNA; (3) @Frugal Instincts that seek to optimize their use of resources; (4) @Openness To Feedback that enables adaptive learning; (5) @Symbiotic Behaviors that link individual wellbeing in the health of the larger systems in which they exist; and (6) @Consciousness of capabilities, interdependencies, and limits.

Contexts

• #living-asset-stewardship (this is the @Root Memo)
• #companies-that-mimic-life (See: @Companies that Mimic Life)