Most organizations today have been heavily influenced by a mechanistic view of the world in the forming of their structural models. This presentation offers an alternative perspective that may help organizations to become more agile as they respond to a changing world.

1. Organic Models of
Organizational Design

2. The world is a
Tropical Rainforest

3. We must plant our
organizations in the
rainforest.

4. Mechanistic
designs do not
work in the
rainforest.

5. We need models that are more . . .

6. Organic models
grow in the rainforest

7. Chaos Theory
says that life is full
of uncertainty.

8. But with time,
ordered design begins to appear.

9. Organic organizations know how to
navigate the chaos.

10. An organic organization
embeds systems that enable
chaos to find its natural
order.

11. Many
organizations
are stuck in
the routines of
the past.

12. An organic organization grows …

13. An organic organization grows …
in the soil of its environment.

14. The organic organization combines . . .
thinking

15. The organic organization combines . . .
thinking
with doing

16. Organic organizations become an
integral part of the environment.

17. Organizations that are
stuck in the past
soon become relics.

18. ¿Are you able to
plant your
organization
in today’s jungle?

19. Embrace organic design
to live and grow.

20. Designed and presented by:
Dr. Greg Waddell
Blog: www.SpiritOfOrganization.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gregwad_l