The Congruence Framework: An opportunity to rethink the future of organisations - Paperback

by Tony Chamberlain (Author)

'Put simply, we need to change the way our world works. We need to find new ways to create healthy, peaceful and sustainable communities. We need new ways to share wealth that eliminate poverty. We need new ways to relate to one another that resolve conflict, promote healing and avert wars. We need new ways of learning that embrace difference and diversity to moderate fundamentalism, and to eliminate racism and the abuse of privilege. To find these new ways we need new conversations that can change how we think and act as individuals and collectively as members of the communities and organisations in which we participate.' 'We need organisations that see their future as inextricably linked to the wellbeing of their total stakeholder community and understand that their longer-term sustainability is dependent on creating equitable-shared value for that community. These are the organisations that behave like communities of purpose, communities that are bound together by their commonality of interest and sustained by the co-creation of mutual benefit.' This book marks the conclusion of the first stage of an ongoing project to create an organisational and personal development framework that will assist organisations, communities and individuals to become more congruent. This 'definitive edition' introduces the Congruence Framework, an idea that 'joins the dots' by connecting with the work of many well known writers such as Peter Block, Peter Senge, Stephen Covey, C. Otto Scharmer, William Isaacs and Raj Sisodia et al. The principles of the Congruence Framework are captured in more than 50 illustrations, which are designed to provide visual summaries of the concepts and constructs that underpin the Framework. Readers conversant with organisational (and personal) development theories and methodologies will be familiar with many of the concepts discussed. However, it is the definition and integration of these concepts within a new organising (or thinking) framework - the Congruence Framework - that hopefully presents a fresh perspective for interested readers. Defining what we mean by congruence, clarifying the nature of purpose and leadership, emphasising the importance of community, reconnecting with the idea of learning organisations, advocating for more relevant (equitable-shared value) organisational outcomes, and rethinking the notions of corporate responsibility and individual wellbeing, are some of the ways this book tries to present and integrate new thinking about familiar concepts. The book also provides an opportunity to think about individual congruence and to ponder questions such as "Am I joyful?; Is this my community?; How do I release my potential?; Is my life on purpose?; and Do I love my people?. 'Our capacity to love ourselves and to love the people within our communities is fundamental to our capacity for the self leadership from spirit that is important for our individual congruence; and also for the shared leadership that fosters congruence within our communities'.