We talk a lot about the need to build culture. And we recognize that to transform an organization, any organization, we must first reimagine and build a new culture.
It's as if the culture is the soil of the garden within which roots reach deep and invisibly intertwine. But how might we develop practices to help cultivate it?
We now recognize that culture is about connections that form meaningful relationships. But to build culture, we sense that _belonging_ is essential.
We now recognize that culture enables us to be resilient. To create resilience a culture must support _healing_ to happen.
We now recognize that culture must allow an emergence of something wonderful. To do that, it must inspire the process of _creating_.
We sense that the development of resilient and adaptive complex systems – Autopoietic Systems – might be closely related to the capacity of each node and emergent cluster to be self-belonging, self-healing, and self-creating. These systems cannot be creative without the other two elements present.
For us to develop a vital culture, we must become very intentional in tending the soil. We must implement practices that cultivate each of these essential elements. They are like the three minerals we use when we fertilize our gardens: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
Perhaps we just start with a 10-10-10 bag.