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Victoria Kindred

Victoria Kindred is tagged in 2 stories.
From Hedgehogs to Whole Systems: An Evolution in Business Principles
From Hedgehogs to Whole Systems: An Evolution in Business Principles

Organizational Governance / The story of the hedgehog and the fox, originally conceived in ancient Greece and popularized in the 1950s by philosopher Isaiah Berlin, figures prominently in the business canon as a parable of depth vs. breadth. The most popular version of the tale involves a hungry, wily fox and a slow, simple hedgehog. One expects the fox to devour his prey. But the hedgehog regularly evades death by freezing in place, forming into a ball of unappetizing spikes, too painful a prospect for even the hungriest of foxes. The hedgehog's ability to "know one thing well" prevails over the fox's assiduous advances. - 10 years ago

Sustainability as an Emergent Property: What Can We Learn from the Super-Organisms?
Sustainability as an Emergent Property: What Can We Learn from the Super-Organisms?

Collaboration & Co-Creation / In the ongoing drive to create and communicate about sustainability in the emerging economy, it can be useful to conceive of sustainability not as a quantifiable end goal, but as an emergent property. An emergent property arises when individual components or actions, combined together, collectively generate a higher-level aggregate experience. Think democracy. Or plague. Or community. One does not "do" sustainability anymore than one "does" community. One co-creates community through all of the little deeds — hosting the potluck, planning the carpool, sharing the tool shed. Like community, sustainability — or any emergent property — arises out of the contributions made and conditions created in service of a shared reality. - 10 years ago