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I’d be interested to see what the correlation is of performance to organisation ethos. Personally, I would find it quite challenging to get excited and committed to a large pharma company given their public standing.

Unfashionable though it is, beauty as an organisational parameter matters. I often cycle back to Alan Moore’s work in “Do Build” to consider where the energy of a project might lie.

It is difficult to get motivated by making money for others at the expense of the health of our soul….

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In Software Engineering there has been quite a lot of research into to correlation between organisational ethos and performance. Nicole Fosgren and others showed Ron Westrum's Culture Typologies as predictive of organisational performance: https://itrevolution.com/articles/westrums-organizational-model-in-tech-orgs/

'Yes' to beauty - in what we build and how we build - good engineering has both form and function, but we often disregard form in favour of function.

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Great summary of the teams REA👍. As complexity science and human system dynamics start to embed themselves into mainstream management training, seeing knowledge at a team system level, that is greater or lesser then its sum of its parts is critical.

For those in HR & learning, moving beyond the idea of the brain as an information processor and understanding how learning in development happens in an embodied mind, embedded in an environment , enacted through others and extended by areas such as AI.

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