Be a Jungle Manager
While researching our approach, the main aim has been to convert the current understanding of the powerful biological forces that shape our world into practical everyday guidance for managers. We have derived the following principles of successful management in an increasingly jungly environment:
- Jungle managers are opportunistic and omnivorous
- Jungle managers cultivate their system
- Jungle managers grow with the flow
- Jungle managers actively disorganise
- Jungle managers are fearless risk takers
- Jungle managers are persistent and patient
- Jungle managers have good defences
- Jungle managers value observation, knowledge and failure
- Jungle managers are playful and put in effort without stress
Jungle management helps you look at the world in a new way:
- There is no difference between the natural world and the man-made world -- they both operate according to the same principles.
- All organisations, products and societies are life forms -- observing how they behave gives a truly realistic picture of business performance.