Future Here Now: People-Structure

Selections

This week’s Future Here Now installments focus on the question of building new ways to help people connect and develop the capacity to work together — not just ad-hoc, like we do in our daily lives, but intentionally and effectively. I’m drawing on the analogy of Infrastructure — those systems of pipes and wires and roads and bridges that we know are necessary to keep our society and our economy moving. Hence, People-structure.

The Selection this week is a book that took me months to read — not because it was hard, but because it was so on target that I found myself reading and re-reading sections to try to fully get my head around the implications of what they were telling me.

The book is called An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Develeopmental Organization. It’s by psychologists Robert Keagan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, published by Harvard Business Review Press. An Everyone Culture introduces us to a half-dozen organizations of all types, from a hedge fund to a movie theater…