Carol Sanford
19 min readFeb 14, 2024

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How We Produce and Promote Degenerative Cultures

Designing for widespread dissatisfaction , polarization, despair,

and some success! Oh! — And the Regenerative Alternative

I want to give you a reason to read this article. All of it! The article offers a framework of all that makes your life work, or not. It is a living systems framework applied for making sense of government, business, education theories, and even families in chaos. It is one of my denser articles and complex relationships are offered. But you will be glad you did because it can give you hope, a plan for change in human institutions, and leadership approaches, even as it sometime may seem overwhelming. In other words, it is going to be ‘good for you.’ And for your roles in business and institutions. And even as a citizen who worries if we are ‘going to hell in the proverbially hand basket. But it is also about a light at the end of the tunnel and how to become the trainmaster.

Abstract Overview: How to design Bias, particularly racial bias, into everything.Ensuring the conditions and infrastructure for nurturing exclusion, inequity, injustice and therefore violence and degeneration of society and communities are present and well-honed is the usual. Or as we go along, I offer how to take the road less traveled as a Regenerative alternative.

Designing Biased Systems

We hear that bias in structured into business. And society. Even institutions intended to do good. What does that mean? One thing it conveys is the invisibility of “it is working…

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Carol Sanford

Sr Fellow Social Innovation, Babson |# 1 AmazonBest Selling/Multi-Award Winning Author | Regenerative Paradigm Educator