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The Age of Thrivability
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The Age of Thrivability

Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World

Michelle Holliday
Michelle Holliday, 2016

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Editorial Rating

9

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Recommendation

Consultant Michelle Holliday brings wisdom, compassion and joy to a discussion of business practices, and she shows how nurturing those attributes can enliven your organization. She explains that the people in a business are its living system – and give it “thrivability.” Holliday’s work is both abstract and practical, a meditation at the intersection of philosophy and management theory. She illustrates her thesis with case studies, though a few more nuts and bolts might make the book more helpful to managers. Still, this is a welcome, positive blueprint for those seeking a way forward in complex times.

Take-Aways

  • Modern thinking recognizes living systems on a basis of patterns and relationships.
  • Living systems don’t merely react to their environment’s information, physical nature and energy. They act, choose, self-regenerate, evolve and create.
  • Complexity forces people to harmonize the two hemispheres of the neocortex. This sparks divergent behavior.

About the Author

Michelle Holliday is an organizational consultant and facilitator with expertise in thrivability for communities and businesses.

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