Want to build an organization that is agile, diverse, innovative, and stable?​

Inventors and technology companies have been using nature for product design inspiration for decades. However, the similarity between nature and business doesn’t have to stop at the product level. There is just as much to learn from nature at the organizational level, which is exactly what John Winder, PhD, reveals in Building a Self-Evolving Organization. 

Winder has created an easy to implement guide that provides practical examples and step-by-step instructions explaining how you can build, or refresh, your organization based on principles observed in nature. Some of the key observations presented in the book are:
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  • How natural organizations are analogous to business organizations
  • Managing despite constant change—even during macro-change events
  • Why diversity is critical and steps you can take to increase it
  • Why isolation can kill a species … and an organization
  • How to ensure the right ideas are selected to advance the organization
  • What happens when dominance suppresses innovation
  • How poor environmental quality disrupts the organization

If you are building a new organization, or want to revitalize an existing one, Building a Self-Evolving Organization is the perfect blueprint to ensure the end result is agile, diverse, innovative, and stable.  Nature has spent billions of years perfecting itself through evolution and your organization can benefit from the results.
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About the Author:

John A. Winder, PhD
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John Winder grew up on a cattle ranch in southwestern New Mexico. His experiences during these formative years led to a strong interest in biology and agricultural sciences. He pursued these interests and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at New Mexico State University focusing on animal sciences and genetics.

After completing his master’s degree, John advised and assisted agricultural enterprises in Oklahoma and owned and managed his own businesses in New Mexico and Colorado. This provided him with important exposure to the challenges of managing labor, finances, and risk. These experiences also instilled in him a keen awareness of the need for constant innovation and proactive change.

John’s experiences also aroused a strong interest in expanding his knowledge base. This led him to return to college and pursue a doctorate in animal breeding and genetics at Colorado State University. After which he held faculty appointments, consultancies, and senior leadership roles at major public land-grant universities, a large nonprofit foundation, and a privately funded public service organization. His leadership responsibilities in these organizations included personnel management and professional development, oversight of multimillion-dollar budgets, development of communications strategies and technologies, accountability for program outcomes, and creation and implementation of long-term plans.

Throughout his career, John was appointed to statewide, multistate, and national boards, commissions, and advisory councils. These provided input to and governance for large natural resources, education, and public service organizations. In this capacity, he was also responsible for evaluating numerous funding proposals, assessing outcomes of programs conducted by the organizations, and providing feedback to organizational leadership.
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John and his wife, Patty, live in McCall, Idaho.