AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER The pressure on CEOs and other leaders to create results, while balancing an increasing diversity of opposing demands, is reaching oppressive levels. Leaders sense a breakdown to our existing approaches to business.   The framework that was used to guide their efforts and create successful outcomes no longer produce the same results.  The Living Organization ®  delivers a new model that transforms the best of what worked before and expands it to deliver new life and growth for organizations. First and foremost,  The Living Organization  deepens our understanding of how any living organization creates the results it desires.  Norman Wolfe draws on decades of experience both leading and consulting with organizations, large and small, to unravel the mystery of creating results   Based on scientific, philosophical and spiritual truths,  The Living Organization  model  explores how three distinct yet highly interdependent fields of energy influence and determine what results will and will not be created.     Beyond just a new theory, Norman Wolfe provides  practical tools  for aligning and focusing the organization on strategy execution. Building on decades of learning about organization effectiveness and execution management,  The Living Organization  expands our frameworks for allocating resources and making decisions that will  reap the desired results.     Most organizations fail because they focus only on activities and reduce organizations to simple machines of production. But machines are, by their very nature, soulless and everything the machine paradigm touches turns soulless and lifeless.  By contrast, The Living Organization brings life to an organization's activity. It is energized by relationships and brings meaning and purpose to activities. The Living Organization is a creative force and is in harmony with its environment,growing and developing as it contributes to and enhances all members of its ecosystem.  "Like all living systems, organizations create by transforming energy. The magic of companies like Apple, Whole Foods, Harley Davidson, Nordstrom," Wolfe writes,"lies in their ability to harness the three energy fields of manifestation whether done consciously or unconsciously."  The Living Organization presents the foundation of a new business model that provides a more detailed map to navigate the complex business world of this century . This evolutionary perspective is afresh way to understand how organizations develop, grow and evolve. It will challenge the way you think and interact.  The guiding principles and theories can direct the largest of corporations or the entrepreneurial startup in getting the results they want.  Deeply personal, brimming with compelling stories from real-life challenges, and packed with  powerful insights, tools, and practices , this book is a potent resource for aspiring, emerging, and seasoned business leaders alike. Or anyone interested in creating the results they desire. An inspiring reframing of how we understand business creates bottom-line result. I couldn't put it down. ~Casey Sheehan, CEO, Patagonia ... blazing a trail to a new world...reframing of how businessopens us to the possibility of realizing the fullest of our human potential,individually and collectively. ~ChipConley, Executive Chairman, Joie de Vivre and author of "Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow" The Living Organization is a very different management book. Norman Wolfe explains what no one else has - how spiritual principles are the bedrock of a growing, thriving business. .. This is a book to be read slowly and assimilated. ~Srikumar Rao, creator of "Creativity and Personal Mastery" and author of "Happiness at Work." This is the first major book I have written.  While I say I have written it, in truthI have often felt I was merely the instrument that would allow the message ofthe book to be come alive.  Fourthe 4 plus years I was writing this book, it felt as if I was in the grasp of somethingbigger than myself.   Much of whatis in the book was given birth through the writing process itself. I hope you will feel that I have done this messagejustice.   What is clear to me is that our society needs thismessage.  The problems and challengeswe are faced with cannot be solved through the lens of the old paradigm.  But once we shift our framework, what wasonce difficult or even impossible will become easy and simple to address. The Living Organization has an evolutionaryperspective, a fresh new way tounderstand how organizations draw from complexity andinterdependence to develop, grow and evolve. ..Itwill challenge the way we think... the way we interact...Let every organizationleader learn the art of leading a living organization; of guiding its growthand development to better serve its customers and...the advancement of a healthysociety. From the Forward by John MackeyCo-CEO, Whole Foods Market Througho