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Luminous Living Systems™
What changes when an organisation is read as an organism rather than a machine — the principal volume on the frame.
6 chapters · 44,063 words · Narrated · Still being written
A machine is assembled, has no interior, and does what it is designed to do until it breaks. An organism grows, metabolises, repairs, has an interior, and responds to intent rather than obeying it. Nearly all management practice is built on the first metaphor and applied to things that are unmistakably the second.
Six chapters on the properties that follow — boundaries, flows, feedback, autopoiesis, the difference between growth and development — and what each implies for how an organisation is actually run. Narrated, and still being written.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.