The often overlooked common denominator of such terms as innovation, knowledge, identity, strategy, leadership, operations and change is organization. Organization may mean two things: 1 organic organization (emergence of a structure from potentiality to actuality), 2 organizing.

Organizing results in an artificial, mechanically assembled entity. Organic organizations and mechanically assembled (artificial) organizations are in polar opposition to each other. In fact a mechanical organization (it’s safe to say this includes all business organizations) disable organic organization, while organic organization threatens the very foundations of a mechanical organization.

The organization is not a company, and the company is not an (organic) organization.

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