Now, after all the introductory material in the first few posts, we are going to get a little technical.
The next post looks at organisations [1] that work with people and how the three elements, inclusiveness, boundedness and creativity, determined by the traits of the people in them, contribute to the culture of the organisation as a whole.
While organisations are just collections of people, the organisation seems to have a power of its own over and above the power of the individuals that make it up.
We have come across this already; quoting Aristotle’s statement the whole is greater than the sum of the parts when we were discussing emergence and the family.
And in terms of sense of belonging, (inclusiveness) how often have we heard people within an organisation giving out about the organisation, as if it was all other people’s fault!
[1]. There is an entire Chapter on Organisational Matters in Section Five.