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The Organizing Principle

There is an organizing principle that pervades life. There is no place it is absent, nor a time when it is not active. It is present in nature as what we outwardly observe and in mankind as what we inwardly experience. When life is in accord with this organizing principal we experience tangible success and an evolving sense of wellbeing. Conversely, life lived in discord with this organizing principle results in our discomfort.

To the extent that belonging, respect and abundance are found to pervade society that much “right relationship” with the organizing principle of life is at cause. To the extent that frustration, poverty, illness, crime, stress, pollution, etc. pervade society, that much “wrong relationship” with the organizing principle of life is at cause.

Fortunately, the organizing principle of life is intelligent: endowed with the capacity to self-organize, self-assess and self-correct. It is due to its self-assessing capacity that discomfort arises as our invitation to reassess our will, feeling, thinking so that we may self-correct. And though society's failure to self-correct is everywhere evident, life's organizing principle will not be deterred from achieving accord.

Historically, it has been the philanthropic impulse that inspires action to remedy society's discomfort. Often this impulse takes the form of humanitarian, social, and environmental initiatives aimed at correcting the resulting expression of society's discord with life's organizing principle. However, since the cause of society's discomfort issue from its collective “practice of humanity,” efforts to address that discomfort on the level of its expression are ineffective. Only efforts that address society's “practice of humanity” directly will yield the desired results. And while the philanthropic impulse is absolutely necessary, compassionate and inspiring. At present, it is ill equipped to affect those changes in society.

For society to align with life's organizing principle, a fundamental shift must take place where the “practice of humanity” may be transformed in the greatest number of people. The world of business is that place. It is the business world that so completely participates in the waking hours of our lives. Whether commuting to, preparing for or engaging in, the workplace is where society learns and habituates its practice of humanity.

Historically businesses are known to be generators of wealth for society. What has been overlooked is the fact that there are actually two kinds of wealth that businesses generate. One is the means of “exchange” the other the means of “change.” One is the byproduct of business and the other is its true product.

The problems that face business today stem from confusing the byproduct for the product and therefore the goal of business. The problems that face society arise out of the practice of this confusion in business. The business industry has lost sight of this understanding and through its practices unknowingly causes the problems that plague both business and society. And even though the business industry in America alone "lose $300 billion annually to lowered productivity, absenteeism, health-care and related costs stemming from stress" and actively seeks solutions for the apparent evolution of their challenges and obstacles. They will not meet with success until their practice of humanity is in right relationship with the organizing principle of business.

Since businesses traditionally embrace a "practice of humanity" characterized by separation, scarcity and fear in pursuit of that wealth, which is actually the byproduct of business and the means of exchange in society. It is logical that a "practice of humanity” characterized by belonging, abundance and respect will generate an abundance of both forms of wealth in society.

Fortunately the self-correcting nature of life's organizing principle offers a way to affect that change within the same structure that has given rise to the problem. Just as the CEO determines the corporate culture, which condones the practice of humanity in business, he/she can change it. The CEO can become that champion, awake to the responsibility to transform the quality of life in society through “right relationship” with the organizing principle of life.

Corporate CPR" (Corporate Communication Pattern Recognition) exists to support that process. Corporate CPR" is a proprietary assessment and correction tool that evokes the willing, feeling and thinking of the CEO into “right relationship” with life's organizing principle. Thereby changing the tone of business and generating an evolving sense of wellbeing for those in relationship with the company and through them the society at large.