Giles Hutchins, a transformative leader in regenerative business and author of "Nature Works," discusses the imperative of aligning leadership with nature. He critiques traditional paradigms and highlights the interconnectedness of humans and the environment. The conversation reveals how embracing tensions can fuel creativity and growth. Giles explores the relationship between artificial intelligence and natural wisdom, and the importance of seeing organizations as living systems. He emphasizes cultivating empathy and aiming for a holistic approach to enhance our world's sustainability.
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Shifting Consciousness
Consciousness is a complex concept, encompassing worldviews and meaning-making processes.
It involves shifting from a separated mindset to one that's in tune with how life works.
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Nature's True Meaning
The word 'nature' has shifted in meaning, from a process of becoming to something 'out there'.
This separation reflects a reductive way of thinking.
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Levels of Learning from Nature
Hutchins describes three levels of learning from living systems: learning from, participating within, and attuning with nature.
These levels represent a progression in consciousness and engagement with nature.
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Per Bak's "How Nature Works" delves into the concept of self-organized criticality, a framework explaining how complex systems, from sandpiles to earthquakes, exhibit seemingly unpredictable behavior. The book argues that these systems self-organize into a critical state, poised on the brink of instability, leading to sudden and dramatic events. Bak uses various examples to illustrate how these systems operate, highlighting the inherent unpredictability and emergent properties of complex systems. The book's insights have implications for understanding a wide range of phenomena, from natural disasters to financial markets. It challenges traditional approaches to modeling complex systems, emphasizing the importance of understanding their inherent instability and emergent behavior.
The Illusion of Separation
The Illusion of Separation
Giles Hutchins
Do we have what it takes to change our ways to ones that work with, rather than against, life?
In this episode, I speak with Giles Hutchins. Giles is a leading voice in regenerative leadership and business transformation. With 30 years of experience—including roles as Head of Transformation at KPMG and Global Sustainability Director at Atos—he now focuses on guiding leaders and organizations toward more resilient, nature-inspired ways of working. He’s the author of books like The Illusion of Separation and Leading by Nature, and his new book is called Nature Works: Activating Regenerative Leadership Consciousness. Giles's work explores how businesses can move beyond outdated models to embrace a regenerative future. We discuss:
🥥 What it takes to lead in a world of complexity and change;
🥥 How the current mechanistic paradigm can at best help us cope with what is coming, what has already happened, and maybe not even help us cope for much longer;
🥥 How dynergy is a tension and conflict holds creative energy, which allows for emergence to come through;
🥥 Nature as natura naturans, the enabling process of becoming, not Nature as "out there."
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