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Refuting the Logic of Separation

A better way of doing business

Giles Hutchins
Tue, 12/08/2015 - 10:16
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Much of today’s organizational management mindset—whether corporate, nonprofit, government institution, or startup—is rooted in a flawed logic about how the world works.

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“We have been, and still are, in the grips of a flawed view of reality—a flawed paradigm, a flawed worldview—and it pervades our culture, putting us on a biological collision course with collapse.”
—Ray Anderson, once voted America’s most admired CEO

Central to this flawed logic is a control-based, oppositional mindset with a tendency to polarize and reduce life’s tensions into separations: organisms separate from their environment, God separate from creation, us separate from them, yin separate from yang, mind separate from matter, and rational analytical thought separate from embodied and intuitive ways of knowing.

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