Dr. Kathy Allen

Popular guest blogger David Erskine joins us again from just ten minutes north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

I’ve been thinking a lot about nonprofit governance lately, and the limitations of short-term process.

There are many types of transitions in Nature.

Lately, I’ve been writing about the different forms of transition we find in Nature, and how they can offer frameworks for living through our own transitions—in our lives, our careers, our communities, and our organizations.

As ecosystems evolve, Nature manages their transitions in multiple ways.

Last week, I explored how Nature’s transitions rarely happen overnight.

For the last few weeks I’ve examined the metaphor of pruning to let go, to find purpose, and to change and grow.

Before we dive into this essay in the pruning series, let’s review our first two concepts: First, I wrote about pruning “to let go,” using the oak tree’s example of releasing limbs that no longer contribute nutrients.

It’s surprisingly easy to build a life so full of commitments that we lose sight of why we chose them in the first place.

Gardeners prune bushes and trees so the plants can grow healthier, evolve, expand, and create space for other things that might be growing underneath a canopy.

Guest blogger David Erskine joins us again to share Stoic insights from ten minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

As I continue my series on leading from a regenerative worldview, I’ve been thinking a lot about trust and and interdependence, and how central they are it to any regenerative organization or system.

Throughout this series exploring a regenerative worldview, I’ve reflected on what organizations might look like if we used Nature as a model for their design.

Continuing our series about a regenerative worldview for organizations, today we ask an important question: What does leadership look like in an organization that is designed to regenerate?

Last week, we examined harvesting resources in a regenerative organization.