Companies that Mimic Life #companies-that-mimic-life

The Global Living Asset Management Performance (LAMP) Index is a learning laboratory of sixty (60) corporate pioneers in Living Asset Stewardship (LAS) (LAS). It was conceived as a research project...

Consciousness is the state or condition of being conscious, encompassing awareness and perception. In organizational contexts, consciousness of capabilities, interdependencies, and limits is the...

Nature is an inter-relational network of inter-being, where everything is in dynamic relation with its environment, and continuously communicating and collaborating within an ocean of being....

'Companies that Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance' is a book by Joseph Bragdon that chronicles the radical transformation taking root in the corporate world. Industrial...

Decentralized, self-organizing networked structures describe organizational architectures in which autonomous units coordinate organically to serve the health of the whole system. One of the Six...

The Six Lifelike Qualities are the core attributes identified in Companies that Mimic Life by Joseph Bragdon as distinguishing organizations that operate like living systems from those that operate...

Frugal instincts describe the disciplined optimization of resource use, modeled on nature’s tendency to achieve maximum effect with minimal waste. As one of the Six Lifelike Qualities described in...

Symbiotic behaviors describe strategic and operational choices that align the success of the individual or organization with the health of the larger systems in which they participate. As one of the...

Openness to feedback is the capacity of an organization to listen, learn, and adapt continuously in response to signals from its internal and external environments. One of the Six Lifelike Qualities...

Regenerative life strategies refer to the adoption of business practices and cultural norms that renew and enhance an organization’s core assets over time. One of the Six Lifelike Qualities in...

Novo Nordisk, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Bagsværd, Denmark, is a leading global healthcare company specializing in treatments for serious chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. With...

Nike is the world's leading sportswear and athletic footwear company, headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. Operating at global scale with tens of thousands of employees and supply chain partners...

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA is a German chemical and consumer goods company founded in 1876, headquartered in Düsseldorf. It operates through two global business units: Adhesive Technologies (Loctite,...

United Technologies Corporation (UTC) was a Hartford, Connecticut-based industrial conglomerate operating across aerospace (Pratt & Whitney engines, Sikorsky helicopters) and building systems (Otis...

Nucor Corporation, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the largest steel producer and largest scrap recycler in the United States. Operating more than 300 facilities across North America...

Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational consumer goods company headquartered in London, with roughly 400 brands across food, home care, and personal care sold in over 190 countries. One of the...

Ecocentric Capitalism is "life-first" thinking within the scope of commercial enterprise; departure from the bottom-line-first approach of Egocentric Capitalism and return to the stewardship of our...

Otto Scharmer, the cofounder of the innovative Presencing Institute and U.Lab at MIT, frames the transition from ego to eco in terms of discovering and cultivating the social field in which we...

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...

Three Instruments refers to a conceptual framework for innovation and leadership that emphasizes the integration of three core capacities: the Open Mind (Intellectual Intelligence (IQ)), the Open...