Applications of Human Living System Principles are fact - Not just abstract ideas about future possibilities. I am aware of them starting as early as the 1950's. They have appeared with greater frequency and importance since then. Knowing this makes the next posts more meaningful for you.

This post's purpose is to introduce you to a few partial applications of Human Living System Principles impacting how the world is organized and run. They are quite visible if you know what to look for and how to see them.

Of course, that is what my discussions of the Human Living System Principles enable you to do - Know what to look for and how to see it within the "Partial" Living System applications we now know of. I explain why I say "Partial" applications in a moment.

A short list of existing applications includes:

- W.L.Gore & Associates organized and run as a Nodal Network Business in the 1950's with later examples continuing to emerge, such as the Virgin Group;

- Transformation of the Hollywood movie industry from a few giant independent studios in the 1960's to today's temporary networks of very small companies in voluntary nodal teams;

- Dee Hock's revolutionary restructuring of the VISA group using "Chaordic" concepts and practices;

- The "Hacker Culture" creating Open Source operating system and application software - Web-Based Applications advancing relentlessly in the process of replacing Proprietary, Desktop and Local Server Based Applications (Google vs. Microsoft & Linux vs. Windows);

- Toyota with its Living System like "Pull Manufacturing" processes replacing the Linear System "Push Manufacturing" and administration of the U.S. Big 3 (GM Ford and Chrysler) in volume, profitabilty and return leadership;

- Business "Evangelism" replacing conventional ideas and practices of Sales & Marketing pioneered by Apple, further developed by Guy Kawasaki, Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba, and just beginning is a Living System Branding-Design-Marketing-Buying Process pioneered by Isis Creation;

- Recreating leading-edge military organizations as Nodal Networks of small Special Forces Teams;

- Recreating New Venture Development, such as by Paul Graham and Guy Kawasaki, relative to conventional Venture Capital.

This is only a short list of some existing partial applications. The amazing fact is that pioneers are making significant, if not spectacular, advances based on only fragmentary understanding of living systems and using only limited living system practices, apparently without being consciously aware of what they are doing. Nearly all of the persons leading these examples never mention living systems or seem to be consciously aware of Human Living System Principles underlying what they do.

I am saying these pioneers appear to act based on internal guidance consistent with the world discontinuous transformation to Living System Life and Work that they do not appear to be consciously aware of. They demonstrate they are compelled by an underlying force to do what they are doing. They just intuitively seem to know that the current conventional linear system approaches to life and work no longer work and they must abandon them. They just inherently seem to know how to begin taking actions consistent with living system theory and practices even though they do not yet really understand them. This situation makes the world human transformation all the more real. As I said, it is rare that they even use the language of living systems. Why? Because they don’t know it - Consciously.

How in the world could this happen? Very easily! The Human Psyche System is the "Morphic Field" – the underlying field – the guiding force for human affairs – both for individuals and groups. Each stage of human psyche evolution has its own Morphic field pattern for success. The Morphic field for a new pattern for success is emerging in the psyches of leading persons.

Pioneers of Living System Life and Work, who are yet a small minority of leaders, are in the process of transcending to the new Human Psyche System stage – Named Stage A’. It is the emerging human stage that inherently operates in living system patterns. Therefore, it is natural for people and groups transforming to Stage A’ to begin doing things consistent with Living System Principles even without consciously realizing that is what they are doing. And it is natural that most people and groups, who are not yet transformaing, do not believe that what these pioneers are doing is significant relative to the size of what is comventional - It is.

Now, it should be easier for you to understand why are the applications we are seeing are only Partial ones? When people and groups are just beginning to transform, their new application actions are only partial – They are a mixture of newly emerging psyche stage patterns and those of their previous stages all mixed up together. They are driven by inherent internal patterns - Their Morphic fields - Partly to investigate the new and partly to adhere to previous patterns. There are probably no pure Human Living System applications Yet - But they are coming. The Isis Group Network quest is to be the Leader in service to other Stage A' pioneers.

I am make these points to assure that you do not expect to see complete Living System Principle applications yet – like business school cases of conventional Linear System applications. They are in the process of being created through experiments by leading-edge people who are struggling and stumbling along the way. We need to be able to recognize the Human Living System elements within transformaing applications. The Human Living System Principles are our most powerful tools to accomplish this.

The great strategic advantage for you is to become one of these pioneers now - Not to wait until the new Living System applications are widely understood. Recall, that you cannot be a leader by marching in someone else's parade.

I look forward to your Comments, Questions Suggestions.

John Clayton Caris

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- 10 Human Living System Principles - Part 1
- 10 Human Living System Principles - Part 2
- Best Approach to Understanding Human Living Systems - The Human Psyche