Towards a humanism for organizations: horizontal leadership and consciousness

This book proposes a methodology for experiencing and developing organisations as places of personal and socio-economic meaning. It responds to the challenge of bringing together, synergistically, the impulse of individuals towards self-realisation with the sustainable and lasting development of organisations and territories. The methodology, called Methodology for Horizontal Leadership and Integrated Organisations (HOLIO), derives from 17 years of action-research and experimentation within the Italian National Research Council, to identify approaches to change that start from the motivation of people and renew the sense and effectiveness of their work. It can make a very useful contribution to the renewal of workplaces, in terms of a new personal and social ecology, understood as the harmonious integration of self and of the context. The HOLIO methodology has its foundations on a transdisciplinary approach inspiried by the holistic vision of quantum phisic. It is characterized by 3 elements: definition of the person not as human resource but as a system in development, definition of the organisation as a social living reality in development which identity is given by the beneficiary, definition of a path to generate a synergic development between personal and organisational identity, connected by an evolutionary synergy driven by a mutual generation of meaning, both subjective and collective. This will be possible with a transformative learning which generate new competences and processes for a systemic and evolutionary development.