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Organizational Design & Development
Architecture for Human Systems

Our Philosophy

Organizations, like any living system, must fulfill a need within their environment.

Organizations are first and foremost human arrangements that exist within the context of other living systems. We define organizational structure as three interdependent forms: a physical structure; patterns of relationships and activities driven by identity and purpose; and streams of capital designed to maximize the flow of products, technology and energy. It is the balance of these forms that creates value-producing capacity, based on an organization's ability to interact and form meaningful relationships.

At Mindshift Consulting, we focus on the fundamentals that shape an organization's capacity to learn, develop and produce. We develop strategies to support an organization's emergent future. Organizations have extraordinary capabilities to self organize, to observe and learn, to generate intelligence, and to act on it. But it is an openness to all possibilities that enables an organization to unleash its true human potenial. The nature of an organization is social, and its culture, therefore, lies at the heart of its identity and potential.

Our philosophy and practice is based on a perspective of organizations as living systems that interact with their environment to meet a need in that environment. Organizations fulfill a need to survive, and they continually learn and adapt to do this.

We believe that intelligence emerges as a system connects in different ways, that true leaders focus on service, and that the knowledge and creativity required to solve any challenge is already present. We believe that the structure of an organization is a pattern of relationships based on activities revolving around a core purpose.

Living systems regenerate continually through continual learning and adaptation. Our philosophy is designed to provide you with leading edge perspectives and practices. It is based on the wisdom of many thought leaders in our field.

We have found that when we can keep an open mind--or if you appreciate Zen philosophy, a beginner's mind--we are all more capable of shifting our way of seeing things, of creating new paradigms, of changing our approach, and of adapting to the present. Just as important, we are then more capable of noticing the emergence of what wants to be. All too often, we are an obstacle rather than a positive force to what is presencing before us.