What is organization?

I don’t think we are working differently enough. The prevailing assumption is that organization is something we design, create and control. I think the world is fundamentally self-organizing. We don’t create it, and we certainly don’t control it, but we can live in it with greater joy and less effort. We can learn to enhance our ability for such living, and we can assist others to do the same. The first step is to open space for joy, passion, and initiative to emerge around an opportunity. If it’s exciting, people will join, and then the next thing you have is a group gathered around a shared purpose, engaged in essential conversation, and involved in meaningful action. What’s happening might die, or it may continue and grow. This is organization.