Regenerative Leadership Quotes

“People have become so separated from understanding their actions as part of a greater whole, that they barely give it much thought while working or shopping. Which growing methods, materials, transportation means, and workers have been involved in making your new trousers, for instance? Or growing the salad you snack on for lunch? Or in making your household cleaning products?”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

“shuts us off from the realness of life. “Part of the way our left hemisphere neo-cortex works in order to analyze the world and solve problems, is to break things down into their constituent parts to create boundaries. To make sense of the world we apply the analytic scissors and create cuts in the seamless web of life, but we then forget that it is our own thinking that has created the cuts and the boundaries, and we think the cuts and boundaries exist ‘out-there’ in the world” Peter Hawkins, Leadership specialist”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

“Dive Deeper: Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless have come up with a menu of 33 well defined yet simple structures that are designed to allow the inclusion of everyone across all levels of the organization and stakeholder community. They refer to these simple structures as Liberating Structures in their book of the same title.”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most able to adapt to change.” Charles Darwin, biologist”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

“Today, the amount of fossil fuels humanity uses in one year took one million years to build up underground (Wahl, 2016).”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

“Business is such a powerful creative force on this planet; a force that is able to contribute either constructively or destructively to the future vitality of life on Earth.”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

“If you want to build a ship, don’t gather people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather, teach them to long for the immensity of the sea.” Antoine De Saint Expurery, writer”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

“People deeply crave a new way.”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

“Long gone are the days when a leader knew which buttons to press in their hierarchical organization so that decisions and resulting instructions are carried out smartly. The command-and-control structures have morphed into highly complex networks.” Nik Gowing and Chris Langdon, leadership specialists”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

“Future success will be determined by organizations’ ability to be more innovative, agile, purposeful and resilient.”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

“Social ecologist Gregory Bateson foresaw how the separating of mind from matter – spirit from nature – creates all sorts of problems. For Bateson, this separation is an error of the most fundamental degree. This error, Bateson saw woven into Western habits of thought at deep and partly unconscious levels, undermining our capacity to flourish sustainably on Earth. He felt that it is what pits humanity against nature and provides for our prevalent worldview of survival through competition, in what he viewed as “an ecology of bad ideas” breeding parasitic humans, purely self-centered and destructive of their host environment. He noted that if you, “see the world around you as mindless and therefore not entitled to moral or ethical consideration, the environment will be yours to exploit…If this is your estimate of your relation to nature and you have an advanced technology, your likelihood of survival will be that of a snowball in hell. You will die either of the toxic by-products of your own hate, or, simply, of over-population and over-grazing” (Bateson, 2000).”
― Giles Hutchins, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations