Aligning Organizational Execution: Six Pillars Versus Six Pitfalls — Part 2

Photo by Jesse Collins on Unsplash

This is the second part of a two part series. See part one here.

5. Working from a Systems Approach versus Breaking Wholes into Parts

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression…. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participant is completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the…cosmos.

We begin to realize that our universe is in a sense brought into being by the participation of those involved in it. It is a dance, for participation is its organizing principle. This is the important new concept of quantum mechanics.

— Lyall Watson, Biologist

A Matter of Perspective

Imagine placing a highly concentrated red dye in a small stream and watching it flow into a larger stream…