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.

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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