Healthy Business
This book applies human biology to business leadership and effective team management. Human beings are one of the most successful organisms on the planet. Similarly, privately owned enterprises have released unparalleled innovation and wealth creation since the industrial revolution. Exploring the structures, networks and processes within the human body reveals compelling insights into achieving sustainable high performance. I hope that readers will be inspired to align business assumptions, processes and goals with a biological perspective for healthier results.
Michael graduated from Cambridge University and trained at the Financial Times. He qualified as a Chartered Financial Analyst and performed fund management roles with Swiss Re, UBS and Aberdeen Asset Management, successfully investing in global equity, debt and property markets. He has delivered investment consultancy and business projects across the United Kingdom and Middle East. He enjoys hiking in the English Lake District and has visited over 70 nations.
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Contents
Chapter 1 – Healthy Relationships: The Skeletal System
Chapter 2 – Healthy Teams: The Muscular System
Chapter 3 – Healthy Management Skills: The Liver
Chapter 4 – Healthy Sales: The Digestive System
Chapter 5 – Healthy Operational Management: The Endocrine System
Chapter 6 – Healthy Strategic Leadership: The Nervous System
Chapter 7 – Healthy Human Resources: The Immune System
Chapter 8 – Healthy Finance: The Cardiovascular System
Chapter 9 – Healthy Marketing: The Integumentary System
Chapter 10 – Healthy Team Building: Cellular Systems
Chapter 11 – Healthy Cultural DNA
Chapter 12 – Healthy Innovation
Chapter 13 – Healthy Business Models: The Lungs
The complexity of the largest multi-national corporation is easily overshadowed by the body's network of 11 major biological systems, including 79 organs and a vast array of over 37 trillion cells - equivalent to the stars of over 100 galaxies like the Milky Way.
The apparently simple act of sitting down to think about this involves an unimaginable number of interactions, processes and collaborations. From the fertilized egg to the final heartbeat, the human body is an amazing team of teams, with something to inspire leaders of every type and scale of organization.
This book applies insights from our biological systems to enhance the sustainability of business operations. Many business leaders practice the art of keeping operations as simple as possible. So, let's start with water, the foundation of all known life. What if we think of water as representing the people employed by an enterprise?
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Human beings are one of the most successful organisms on planet earth. Could the structures, networks and processes within the human body contain lessons for managing more successful charities? This book offers leadership insights distilled from biological systems. I hope that it will inspire readers to align organizational assumptions, processes and goals with an organic perspective for healthier income and sustainable revenue generation.
Michael graduated from Cambridge University and trained at the Financial Times. He qualified as a Chartered Financial Analyst and has performed consultancy roles within the public and private sectors. He has advised charities across the United Kingdom on strategic, financial and operational issues.
