Organizational Development and Alignment: The Tensegrity Mandala Framework

摘要

In line with the above quote, the authors have integrated their field experiences of organizational development (OD) with yoga, process work, vaastu and systemsthinking in writing this book. An organization has customarily been depicted in the shape of an “inverted pyramid”which subsumes the complexity of cultures, systems,structures, and processes with the organization’s limitations and advantages. However, the authors here haveproposed the Tensegrity Mandala framework to describe anorganization suitable for 21st century challenges. Tensegrity is a mix of “tension and integrity” while mandala refersto a pictorial or geometric design usually enclosed in acircle, representing the entire universe. The book is dividedinto two sections with a distinct focus for each section.Section A covers the conceptual underpinnings of the Tensegrity Mandala framework while Section B deals with awide range of applications based on the consulting experience of the authors in the OD field.