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Chapter 5Aspiring to Life

My search for life in organizations comes from years of working with people engaged, willingly or not, in change. Those seeing the need for change—regardless of their assigned role—see themselves as leaders, revolutionaries, bureaucrats, missionaries, the disenfranchised, the threatened, the empowered, the weak, or the chosen. When I listen to this chorus of voices, I hear a refrain. See if you can hear it as they sing out their many questions. The song begins with, How do we create organizations that:

  • yield a high return for what we are investing—all the time, money, material, mind, muscle, emotion, spirit, and energy?
  • sustain themselves through time and regenerate themselves through time?
  • contribute to the vitality ...

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