The Living Organization: Why Organizations Lose Coherence - A Biological Framework for Failure, Health and Evolution

What if organizations are not machines to be optimized, but living systems that must remain alive?For decades, organizations have been designed for efficiency, control, and predictability. Yet in a world of constant disruption, complexity, and change, many successful organizations gradually lose their ability to adapt, learn, and remain aligned.The Living Organization introduces a powerful framework for understanding organizations as living systems. Drawing on systems biology, leadership, and organizational design, Tarun Deep Singh explores how organizations sense, adapt, learn, heal, and evolve-and why they sometimes drift into decline despite continued growth.At the heart of the book is the concept of Degenerative Evolution: the idea that the very forces that enable growth can also create the conditions for dysfunction. As organizations expand, complexity accumulates, feedback weakens, alignment erodes, and resilience declines.Through practical models and diagnostic frameworks, readers will learn how to identify hidden organizational pathologies, strengthen feedback systems, improve adaptability, and build organizations capable of long-term renewal.This is not a book of management trends or quick fixes. It is a new lens for understanding how organizations grow, fail, recover, and evolve.Because organizations do not fail because they cannot grow. They fail because they cannot integrate what they grow.

Pagina's: 136, Hardcover, Notion Press