How do you treat an organization that’s sick?
Hint: It has something to do with the BetaCodex.
Following the recent discussion of Peter Block & Peter Koestenbaum's "Confronting Our Freedom" (Episode #60), Niels Pflaeging and Rijon "Ryan" Erickson explore the metaphor of organizational health and its implications for transformation. Watch and listen as they examine how viewing organizations as living systems rather than mechanical structures fundamentally changes the intervention strategies for organizational development and change.
Watch Episode 61 of BetaCodex LIVE: “Organizational Healthcare - Healing, Hygiene and HEART”
EPISODE GUIDE:
00:00 Introduction
03:09 Organizational Health vs Healthcare - Key Distinctions
10:23 Organizations as Living Systems
14:30 Communication & Relationships in Healthy Organizations
26:45 Social Density & Team Health
35:20 Organizational Birth, Death & Renewal
42:15 Healing Trust and Remote Work
49:30 Change as "Pouring Milk into Coffee" vs "Freeze-Unfreeze-Refreeze"
54:10 Integration of Authority, Responsibility & Accountability
FEATURED WORKS
Mary Parker Follett's "Creative Experience" on circular response & integration
Kurt Lewin's Field Theory & systems thinking
William Bridges' "Managing Transitions"
Harrison Owen "Spirit" & "Practice of Peace"
Peter Block's "Community", "Stewardship" and "Confronting Our Freedom" (with Peter Koestenbaum)
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
How to distinguish between mechanical and living system approaches to organization
Why treating organizational change as "health" transforms our intervention strategies
Understanding the role of relationships and communication in organizational healing
How to approach transformation through the lens of chosen accountability
Ways to build trust and social density in hybrid/remote environments
The connection between organizational death and renewal in transformation
Watch Episode 61 of BetaCodex LIVE: “Organizational Healthcare - Healing, Hygiene and HEART” to find out how!
RELATED EPISODES:
Episode 60 “Confronting Our Freedom” - with Drew Weilage
Episode 42 “Optimize or Transform” - with Drew Weilage
Episode 43 “Transform or Else”
Episode 47 “Social Density & Organization”
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