Peter Thomas talks to Stowe Boyd, one of the FORWARD Fellows, who is a work ecologist and Chief Scientist at Workfutures, an exploration of critical themes in the ecology of work and the anthropology of the future.
In this conversation, Stowe and Peter talk about 'rewilding' organisations: essentially the idea that while organizations are seen through the lens of process optimisation, they are in fact underpinned by complex social networks, where individuals and groups are connected to others in an ecology.
The benefit of seeing organisations as ecologies - and letting them thrive through rewilding - is to increase their resilience: natural ecosystems with more weak ties and more incidental interactions are more resilient, something that would seem to be essential in the midst of a polycrisis.
Listen in as Stowe unpacks rewilding, and many other topics, in this wide-ranging discussion of alternatives to the conventional management discourse about organizations.
Transcript here:
https://otter.ai/u/y2R-h-8GRmYcVhDX9aGAPpR2fDo
Read Stowe's article on rewilding here:
https://webexahead.webex.com/the-ecology-of-work-growing-resilient-growing-wilder/
Take a look at workfutures.io on Substack:
https://www.workfutures.io/
