A healthy living system is able to renew itself as the environment changes. This keeps it connected and subservient to its environment.
Organisations that are flexible enough to move with the market last the longest. Networks are healthy when signals of imbalance in the environment are spotted early, and used to reinvent themselves when necessary.
Consequence: In everything you do in a network, ask yourself whether this makes the network better able to fulfil its function in a bigger picture, to pick up the signals of change and to find effective responses to them. This is the legitimisation for the free actor.
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