The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, 5(3), 2000, article 4. Book Review () Fritjof Capra The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter Hammersmith, London: HarperCollins, 1996 Reviewed by Eleanor Glor One of the main determinants of what we think is how we think about it. Is innovation the product of management will and employee implementation or is it an organizational output that depends very much on how the organization functions as a system? The whole systems approach to living systems, including organizations, is not yet widely used in management, but it provided the basis for major improvements in understanding in the biological and physical sciences during the twentieth century. Fritjof Capra, a research scientist in particle physics, and currently the Director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in California, has woven a fascinating whole systems picture of life in The Web of Life.

Torrent Magic Bullet Suite 11 Mac Book. He explains for the first time to my satisfaction why organizations might be regarded as living things–put very basically, because they exhibit the three criteria of life–pattern, structure and process. Beginning at the beginning, Capra describes the patterns followed by the pre-life, then the early life forms on earth. He explains how each created the conditions that made the next stage of life possible, and how life on earth today forms a whole system that is in dynamic balance. It changes all the time, but maintains a balance of the conditions that make life as we know it possible. Nikhil Mantra Vigyan Magazine Pdf. The oxygen in the air, for example, a product of bacteria and plants, must be maintained as a proportion of the atmosphere between 15 and 25 per cent. Below that level nothing would burn–including the plants and animals that we burn (digest) in our alimentary tracts. Above that level, everything would burn.

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The necessary balance has now been maintained for billions of years, despite the sun increasing in intensity by 25 per cent and a crisis of too much oxygen about two billion years ago. Capra goes conducts a tour-de-force of theories that contribute to understanding life, such as cybernetics and chaos theory (see ), culminating in his theory of how life developed on earth–each development incorporating the former in the web of life, to develop the totally interdependent ecology that we have today. Although this theory is of interest to us all, especially we who live in the developed world and interfere so much in that web, I paused over the realization that organizations function in the same way. Of course organizations follow patterns. We have all observed this–bureaucracies are hierarchical, new companies innovate most. But for me the realization that how an organization produces, incorporates, and responds to innovation is probably a product of and part of how it does everything else was very helpful.