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The book asks the basic question “Does your work or business renew you or wear you out?” The book’s main focus is about work and creating inherent sustainability via a path of self development based on natural cycles. He is quick to point out that natural does not mean easy. As he states, “The move toward sustainability is not one frightening giant leap; it’s more a matter of progressing cyclically. With each repetition of the cycle you move closer to true sustainability.” Heeks suggests that since business is very adept at using models as guides for all sorts of activities, it’s time to look behind the scenes in order to find the basic operating principles developed and refined over billions of years that govern all life. The principles of sustainability that control a farm, an ecosystem or the whole Earth are universal, whether they are applied to individuals, work teams or entire organizations. To date, most efforts to apply these natural principles have been focused on the design of buildings, spaces and, more recently, preliminary efforts have been initiated toward product design. Only a few of the most enlightened organisations have attempted to alter their core structure to accommodate sustainability. Alan Heeks says, “Most organizations are still very far from acknowledging or developing human sustainability; their prevailing culture and practices do not sit easily with natural cycles. Typically, the word cycle would only be used to describe the planning or budgeting procedure.”
Read this and be challenged.
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