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Approach to
Energetica Organizacional
(Organizational Energetics)

Spanish Version by Ernesto Molano Devia - 2006

Translated into English by Santiago Molano Jaramillo - 2009
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Approach to Energetica Organizacional –

Organizational Energetics
Contents

Organizational Energetics is the result of a personal investigation that pretended to know

commercial organizations with greater insight, with the purpose of designing transformation
strategies that provide permanent and consistent development for them, as well as for all of its
bound members. It was an investigation with humanistic approach.

During the development of the investigation I had several surprising encounters that drew the
way that would finally lead me to Organizational Energetics. The first, and most important one,
was the comprehension that the human organization is a rational living being, for it is
constituted by human beings that, as a fractal, reproduce an organization similar to every one
of them, which are at the same time, a fractal organization where its minimum autonomous
components are the cells.

This comprehension provided the first horizon to this investigation and for that reason I went
deeper into the knowledge of human physiology to understand more thoroughly the
functioning of the human organism and its components: Cells, tissues, organs and systems.

The second encounter was realizing that the organization, as a living being, carries away the
same kind of functions and that being so, it requires energy for its survival, operation and
maintenance: Physiology talks about the workings and interaction of the elements of the
organism, but does not talk about its energetic process, so other sources were to be consulted,
the investigation found answers in the Chinese culture and specially in this culture’s knowledge
about energy in the human organism, knowledge coming from ancient texts as the Tao Te Ching
and the book of changes, also known as the I Ching. From all of these I gathered wide
comprehension of the flow of energy in natural processes including every living being and by
extension, human organizations.

Trying to structure a process of organizational transformation through the creation of models

that allowed 3D visualization, I stumbled upon the node theory, and rapidly took me into the
General Theory Of Systems, which in turn gave scientific support to the data obtained from
eastern bioenergetics and western human physiology. Four basic concepts from the theory of
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systems enriched the study: Synergy, Entropy, Negentropy, and Feedback. Working from these,
Organizational Energetics took scientific and consistent form accomplishing clarity on its final
objectives: authentic generation of value, organizational motivation, and minimization of the
process of corruption or degeneration of the organization.

This essay is a brief description of Organizational Energetics where complete and general
comprehension of the organization as a living rational system, which requires energy for its
operation, development and achievement of goals and outcomes is offered, being these last
ones nothing more than transformed energy that will feed other organizations.

Finally, having described the organization and understood the energy flow within it, its
development and that of all of the members that are part will be carried one step further with
the proposal of a Humanistic Strategic Planning that supports an organizational structure
designed to facilitate such flow to achieve the objectives of the organization guaranteeing
permanent generation of value, motivation and minimizing degeneration.

This work is a useful tool for any kind of human organization from the simplest ones as the
couple or family to the more complex as the city, society and even more, the whole humankind.
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ORGANIZATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY

The Human Organism

The human organism is a complex organization where the basic element is the cell, which itself
is practically an autonomous system that has within it all the information of the being it makes
up. This characteristic is extensive to all multicellular beings where everything works according
to a magnificent and coordinated interaction between them.

The first step towards the comprehension of the human organism is to understand the
functioning of the cell as the basic unit. Every organic process is carried away by cells which
have formed groups of similar ones to take care of its functions, the tissues, which constitute
the organs that perform the complete activities of the organism which are voluntary, or
involuntary said metabolic.

Cells are microsystems that carry out specialized functions, to which they develop accordingly.
Cells from the heart have enhanced their motor activity while nerve cells or neurons are highly
irritable. Each cell has special characteristics to serve its function, and to get from these its
location on the organism. The objective of this document is not to go into detail about the
ingenious and prodigious process of conformation of the living organism but it is of
fundamental importance to highlight its impeccable mechanism of creation and formation.

The cell is a complex factory where all the processes take place at an energetic level, transfer of
pure energy that allows the cell to communicate, perform tasks, multiply and transform. The
cellular level is clearly energetic. Information and energy transfers are biochemical, being that
cellular energy the one that maintains the organism alive.

Cells degenerate and die. Physiologically, cellular disease is known as Corruption. As for this
work, this information is of vital importance due to its far fetch reaches of significance within
institutional degradation. The organism’s disease is always at the cellular level, either being
intrinsic, meaning that its origin is in the organism as a consequence of its own wear and tear
and/or lack of adequate maintenance, or extrinsic, caused by external organisms like virus or
bacteria, which attack directly the cells.

The important matter here is to understand that degradation of the organism is at cellular level
and that cellular corruption implies their creeping destruction, causing a slow failure in the
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whole organism. This brings a new way to comprehend corruption at a social level and as
system in the way of the loss of vital energy that leads to the death of the organism’s basic
components.

Cells form tissues to carry away specialized functions, a set of tissue is called an organ. Each
organ executes particular activities, vital to guarantee optimum synchronized functioning of the
living organism. Most of the organs are unique, save some exceptions worth considering.
Within the metabolic organs there is the repetition of lungs and kidneys, this due to the
importance of blood as vital mean. Lungs provide it with oxygen, the main energetic of human
organism, kidneys cleanse it to avoid excessive contamination product of cellular waste. Other
double organs are eyes and ears. Vision is essential to development, same as hearing and
equilibrium, being the last one located in the ear system.

Organs that perform complementary functions group in systems such as the digestive system,
one of the most extensive, conformed by several organs that process food into cell digestible
micronutrients. The stomach carries out a pre process of food to facilitate further disintegration
undertaken by the intestines and whose produced result is transported by the blood to each
and every one of the cells.

Analyzing the functions of the organism’s systems we can say that there are three basics:
management of energy, permanent review of organic functioning and protection of the
organism. The organism’s fundamental activity is to keep itself alive so it requires Energy that is
taken from the environment and transformed in such a way that it can be provided to every
one of its cells. Human organism requires three basic sources of energy to assure its vital state:
oxygen, nutrients, and sunlight. Because of that there are three energy capture systems:
respiratory, digestive and cutaneous, all of which act as filters, processors and transducers
respectively.

The circulatory system is responsible of distributing collected energy towards every cell, giving
each one exactly what it requires, a system of distribution and withdrawal of left-over carried
away by the same medium: blood. It is through it that all energy is delivered: oxygen, nutrients,
water and all the wastes are picked up, which are then taken into a processing center dedicated
to that end, the urinary system. Blood being so, is one of the vital elements of the organism and
quintessential communication media.

It is clear then that every organ’s functioning is linked with the energetic process of the
organism, were one to fail and the whole system would fall and die. That’s why an
independent, parallel nervous network exists, whose main function is to watch over the correct
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performance of every organ to avoid damages in the productive system. This nervous network
monitors the entire organism at each moment, assuming corrective measurements
independently, autonomously and immediately. To carry this out it uses the endocrine system
that produces hormones that as ciphered messages are sent through the blood that takes them
to their destiny where they serve their function according to the required necessity.

Blood is the most important element to guarantee life in the organism. Thus the existence of an
independent parallel network that monitors and maintains it, the immune system formed by
the lymphatic network, which, in normal conditions is dedicated to the production of red blood
cells and in emergency conditions, those of red alert, it focuses in the defense of the organism
against external attacks.

In conclusion there are three fundamental systems: energy management, functioning control
and general protection. These three systems, in perfect synchrony ensure the living state of the
organism.

Previously it was mentioned that the organism performs involuntary or metabolic actions and
voluntary, meaning being controlled by the individual. Such acts, as movement, are energy
consuming. To execute them the organism must have energy reserves and mechanisms the
permit its usage, that’s what the musculoskeletal system has been designed for, facilitating the
process.

The human being is a living organism gifted with reason, that is to say, has the capacity to
devise, to consider, applying intelligence. This simply means that the human being is capable of
using all of its organic system for intelligent creative activity. In other words is giving an
appropriate use to the organism it withholds, an end beyond its animal nature. This is the
characteristic that differentiates humans from every other living beings that inhabit this planet.
The capacity to create, transform, think about, transmit, and comprehend are all inherent
characteristics of the human being and by extension, of all the organizations he conforms.
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Human Organization

Just as the human organism is a gathering of cells whose objective is to assure its self-existence,
it can be said that human organization is likewise a gathering of human beings to guarantee
their own life, is a mean to supply their necessities and achieve their objectives.

Working from what’s described in the previous section, the organization must basically have
three independent systems: One of production, another of control and a third one of
protection. The production system is in charge of the whole resource generating device and its
distribution within the organization. Control system verifies its correct functioning and
protection looks after the integral development of individuals and the organization itself.

The fundamental basis of this approach is the establishment of an organization aware of itself,
and so of all of the individuals that make part of it, is thereby a totally humanistic approach
focused on personal development that ensures organizational development. To support said
evolution, the organization must build a clear and consistent Strategic Planning, based on
honest principles, solid and real from which a structure with enough flexibility is developed to
face external changes while maintaining control of its own operation.

The organization must have an effective production system, capable of generating tangible
value real to itself and to all of its members, including clients, providers, owners, investors,
employees and partners.

Likewise, the control system must ensure an efficient organization; this is to keep an eye on
optimum functioning including rational management of resources, permanent update of
processes and ongoing measurement of management of each and every one of the members of
the organization.

Finally the protection system must guarantee permanent development on both individual and
organizational level through the implementation of long term strategies to both internal and
external levels founded on the broad and complete program of institutional motivation that
assures general and particular well being.

Human organization is a rational living being, it has similar characteristics to those of the people
that conforms it and their natural way to organize must be carried away following that same
natural way where the evolution of its composing members is promoted, for it guarantees its
own evolution.
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When referring to the human organism, it was mentioned that corruption is the cellular disease
that can ultimately lead to death to the organism, same thing happens to the organization;
corruption is a hint of disease in it. Corruption is net energy loss. Just like cancer cells steal
energy from the organism, likewise is the corrupt effect in organizations.
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BIOENERGETICS OR ENERGY IN THE

HUMAN ORGANISM

The Western Concept of Energy

Every living being requires energy from its moment of birth to guarantee its development,
maintenance and later creation. A living being, anyone is above all a creator, a transformer of
its environment and itself, for it requires all kinds of resources that finally sum up in a single
word: Energy.

The Word comes from the Greek En: inside and Ergon: Action, labor, meaning the internal
capacity to conduct the action. In Latin energy is synonym of Virtus which means courage,
virtue, and qualities proper to the condition of man, additionally to talent. Merit. These
connotations of the term offer new possibilities beyond the meaning given by physics, which
nonetheless is defined by that science as the capacity to develop a work.

Wikipedia on the webpage http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energ%C3%ADa defines that Energy is

an abstract physical magnitude, linked to the dynamic state of a closed system and that remains
unchanged over time. Also the energy of open systems can be defined, that is, non- isolated parts among
them from a greater closed system. Later in that same page it is found that All bodies possess energy due
to their motion, to their chemical composition, their position, their temperature, their mass, and some
other properties. The diverse branches of physics and science, give various definitions of energy, of
course all of them coherent and complementary, all of them always related to the concept of work.

A relevant characteristic is that it is an abstract physical magnitude, which means that is an

external quality to the body, and nevertheless interacts with it, allows its transformation, its
change, its movement. It is also important to understand that in physics the term is
synonymous with work and heat. The fact of Energy being abstract has made that at human
level, in western thought and science, to lose importance, being an external quality it was left
aside, having made use of it but forgotten that it is part of the living organism.

The human organism is a conglomerate of living individuals called cells that bind together
functionally in tissues which in turn form organs and those again make part of one or several
systems. In every biological process there is a continuous flow of energy that allows the set to
work.
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Human organism is an end and at the same time is the means. End as creation of itself. Every
human being owes him to himself, the way everyone has created and built his organism is
related with his vision of life and personal mission. The construction of the body has some
dependence with genetics and other factors as hereditary and environmental. Genetics are
changeable upon the needs of the individual, the basis of the evolution of mankind itself.
Hereditary and environmental factors are selected by everyone as structural backbones of their
creation.

The objective of the human being is to create, to transform the raw material he receives in his
master work, for he has been gifted with all the tools and elements necessary to carry it out.

His first creation is his own body. The zygote is already an independent and autonomous being
with all his creative capacity. The relationship with his mother is nutritional, his mother acts like
a source of energy and protection. During this initial process, the being is extremely vulnerable
and fragile, only in the most sacred, innermost and dark place of the mother will he be
protected.

The way the being builds his body, forms the foundation of its own organization, under the
rules he himself disposes, dictates and defines, creating the medium to accomplish his creation,
which will be none but himself, this implies permanent checkup of the processes, continuous
improvement, perennial evolution. Creating a body and its correct administration afterwards is
the totally personal unintrustable main responsibility.

The body as a machine must be correctly operated and maintained, implying to know it
rightfully and deeply, to its core elements. That was the analysis done in the section before,
however is responsibility of everyone to deepen its learning towards total comprehension.

Knowing the mechanism brings the comprehension that for its correct functioning permanent
supply of energy is needed, because creation is nothing more than transformed energy, which
for, the body requires different forms of energy that are consumed on its various vital and
creative processes. A good part of the energy is used for the correct functioning of the
organism, the other is employed on the intellectual, creative and movement processes

Human being is matter, elements from the earth that are imbibed of energy that transforms
them, in a process known as evolution, now that finally both mater and energy are the same, as
established by Einstein. The individual mission of every being is nothing but to reveal itself and
comprehend such truth.
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Energy is only one but there are multiple manifestations of it. The human body, composed of
many elements, needs diverse forms of energy to guarantee its functioning. This way, oxygen is
an example of an energetic that facilitates the whole cellular metabolism. Nutrients are
chemical compounds that strengthen different parts of the cell for its correct functioning.

The organism requires energy for its survival also takes it to transform it, such process of
change happens equally on itself and on the energy. One example is the oxygen which is turned
into carbon dioxide by the animals, and then the inverse process made by vegetables. The
movement of energy is clear and permanent.

Movement, including metabolism, is the flow of energy. In this process, energy is captured,
modified, distributed, assimilated or transformed. If energy flows freely, the organism will work
correctly and creation will be eased and incentivized. On the contrary, blocks of energy will
manifest as losses of effectiveness of the energetic resources’ use, which in the body will
manifest as cellular weakness and finally the origin of disease.

Human organism is an organization in itself that carries away four processes independent to
each other: vital, control, protector and creative.

The vital process is constituted by metabolic activities, voluntary and involuntary, as carried out
by the organism. Every function of the organism from respiration, nutrition, circulation,
digestion, excretion, and secretion are vital. The central axis of this process is the circulatory
system and its main player is the heart. This unstoppable organ woks with passion, knows it is
beginning and ending of a process which means life, keeping a permanent movement circuit,
sending energized blood and receiving it worn off. On its course, blood visits each and every
one of the cells, delivering and receiving information, it’s the messenger, receives and grants.
Blood is the one in charge of keeping the organism alive.

There is a parallel process of control, which does a permanent monitor to the vital process.
Every organic and vital activity is checked, analyzed and modified, as required. This process is
executed by the nervous system, designed to be aware and watch over all the vital processes,
knowing the functioning of the cells and organs, knowledge that allows it to verify its operation,
when the organism conducts a deficient operation or needs to execute an action demanding
extraordinary energy levels, the nervous system has all the procedures to undertake any
corrective or emergency action, being supported by the endocrine system. Its main organ is the
brain, which in its silent crypt, cold and quiet controls the vital processes.
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The protector is a third parallel process, its objective is to ensure the quality of blood, being this
the primordial element of the vital cycle. Blood contains and keeps important information of
the organism. The protector process inspects blood, and increases defenses if required, that’s
to say it strengthens blood with more resistant cells to overcome the organic crisis that may
happen. Just as the protector cycle is in charge of creating new cells for the organism, these
cells born from the bone marrow, are the replacement to those who are energetically
exhausted. This system strengthens the organization and permanently regenerates it.

Every organism must have at least these three processes working synchronically and optimally.
This is not an objective itself, but more like a responsibility matter with the self. The fact that
the organism functions correctly allows it to carry out other activities that have to do with its
evolution and will permit it to achieve its mission. In other words a human organism can
function and exist perfectly in a harmonious and efficient way without producing or generating
any transformation on himself or his environment.

Through the accomplishment of optimum synchronization between the energy sources, its own
internal generator and consumption systems, the organism will be a perfect piece of equipment
capable of executing any activity that the being wishes to realize.

The creative process has to do with the activities that transform the being and its surroundings.
For a conscious being the creative process is involved with the usage of energy to modify its
surrounding, activity which is intimately bound to the human species. The creative process goes
beyond all the other organic processes providing the being with his creating capacity.
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Eastern Concept of Energy

To understand Energy from the point of view of this study, it was necessary to dig deeper into
the culture whose conception of life has been based in that process of energetic
transformation. Said culture has ancient registers about energy, its influence in natural
processes, in the development of human life, on his medicine, his spatial conception, martial
arts, and summing up to all of man’s activities, that is the Chinese culture.

It is widely known that ancient American traditions are also holders of that ancestral knowledge
about Energy, but unfortunately there are no written registers that could facilitate the required
investigation for the development of this work from that approach. From China it was possible
to obtain such information from written sources, especially from the Tao Te Ching and the I
Ching, texts that can be considered as complete treaties on Energy.

Energy in the Chinese lifestyle holds a leading role in every activity of the human being.
Medicine, geodesy, nutrition, arts, all of them spin in China around the same concept of Energy
that imbibes the human being and his creative activity completely.

Lao Tzu’s texts: the Tao Te Ching and the Hua Hu Ching are complete treatises on Energy in the
process of development of the human being, based upon its statements a complete
comprehensive world view has been built complemented by the I Ching, document of unknown
origin and integral part of the culture of the east’s great country.

On the second volume of Richard Wilhelm’s version of the I Ching, the most popular version of
the book in the western world, it is clearly described the flow of energy through the
interpretation of the trigrams shown on two octagonal figures called in the text as the cycles of
the earlier and later heaven. The first disposition corresponds to the energetic organization
before the process of creation. Second one describes the process of energy in the actual reality.
This disposition of the later heaven is known on the Chinese tradition as Pa-Kua.

Pa-Kua, which means the way, is the basis for medicine, martial arts and geodesy. In the I Ching
it is shown how everything is in permanent change being fundamental to remain in equilibrium
facing the movement.

Likewise the book of the Tao explains that Energy Is always flowing, the way we manifest the
equilibrium will allow us to acquire handling, control and increase of such Energy. That’s the
reason why martial arts are intimately related to Pa-Kua, being that power lies in the handling
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of energy. Chinese medicine is a profound knowledge of the way energy flows within the
human body, Chinese talk about prevention before treatment; prevention is to understand how
to handle energy.

Pa-Kua is also the fundamental instrument of an exclusive science from the eastern country
called Feng Shui whose objective is to know and handle energy in the spaces where human
activity takes place, such as rooms in the house, working places, cities, and every other space
used up by human beings. This is the starting point for this investigation that in time found its
name: Organizational Energetics.

Before going into further detail of the energy flow inside the organizations it is fundamental to
expose the energetic cycle described in the I Ching which is a description of what is called the
cycle of nature: Reborn in spring, production in summer, harvest in autumn and withdrawal in
winter. The cycle goes on uninterrupted.

¨ All beings arise and are manifested in the sign of the Arousing. Reaches its fullness in the sign
of Soft. Wholeness means that all beings become pure and full. The Clinging is clarity in the
midst of which all beings perceive each other with their eyes. The Receptive Earth means. She
sees that all beings are nourished by, it is said: He, who makes them serve each other in the sign
of the Receptive. What is the full autumn that pleases all beings. Therefore it is said, He rejoices
in the sign of the Calmness. Combat is the sign of the Creative. It means that here the Dark and
Shining excite each other. The Abysmal Water means. The sign of the eagerness, towards which
all beings are attracted. So it is said: He is busy at the sign of the Abysmal. The stilling is the sign
where it is consumed the beginning and end of all beings. So it is said: He's consumed in the sign
of settling.

This verse form the I Ching is the description of the Pa-Kua where it’s shown how the energy
flow of every created being is, the natural flow of the process of a being, an idea or
organization, which in other words states the following:

 First comes the conception of the being with all its strength,
 Then comes the gestation stage where the being is created and given form purely and
intensely,
 Afterwards comes the birth through which the being develops his own strength and vision
capable of leading his own creation,
 To attain he requires protection, mutual support and the care taken not only of himself but
of all of those who love him.
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 This way comes the stage of accomplishments, of production, development of projects that
bring tranquility and joy.
 Follows the moment of retrospection to generate fine tuned creation as a result of the
movement of polarities.
 Requires then all the development of potentialities found deep inside the self, it’s the
moment of the laborious work on oneself.
 This prepares for the last moment, the deep review, the rendering of accounts, the moment
of transformation, to start the cycle again.

This cyclic process is illustrated in figure 1.

Conception

Transformation Gestation

Revision Birth

Retrospection Growth

Production

Figure 1. Energetic cycle of the Being.

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GENERAL THEORY OF SYSTEMS

The Concept of System

From the preceding sections is easy to conclude that the human organism is an ensemble of
systems interacting with each other, that serving to specific functions they obtain a common
objective. From the physiological study its conforming elements, links, relationships and
functions are known. The global analysis of the organism and its parts permit the understanding
of what a system is.

For the effects of having a better comprehension of what is a human organization I have parted
from the premise that this is a collaborative of human beings that with diverse objectives
gather together in a common purpose, and that given the characteristics of the members that
conform it, the human organization constitutes a living being capable of reflection, creation,
processing of information, communication and execution of transformations to its
environment, it is owner of reason, it’s rational.

From Chinese bioenergetics it was learned that the living organism is a system that requires
Energy for its survival and transcendence, it’s an energy processing entity that ceases its
functioning when this Energy disappears.

On both ways, the word System has appeared as a fundamental element for this study, and
because of that, it is important, before enunciating the Organizational Energetics, to
understand what a system is and to explain its principal characteristics.

The study and comprehension of systems in the western world goes back to the dawn of
philosophy in ancient Greece, subject already addressed by Aristotle, but it was only until the
early 20th century that an organized study of the subject took form. After the second world war,
Hungarian scientist Ludwig Von Bertalanffy translates the General Theory of Systems, GTS, into
reality, result of his researches dating back to the second decade of the century.

GTS brought a vision of the systems that removed materialistic sciences and humanities from
the crossroads generating a true revolution in regard to the comprehension of systems and
organizations. The formulation of the GTS opened new doors for development in biology,
physics, chemistry, informatics, cybernetics, psychology, sociology, administration and many
others becoming this way the basis for the development of many areas of human knowledge.
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Nowadays the General Theory Of Systems is used in nearly all areas of human knowledge:
Biology, Biochemistry, Physics, Thermodynamics, Informatics, Cybernetics, Ecology, Social
Psychology, Administration, and many more where it’s used because of the comprehension
that offers about the system in terms of its generality and functioning.

In his book: General Theory Of Systems, Bertalanffy defines system as a complex of interacting
elements. Interaction means that P elements are in R relationships, so the behavior of P in R is
different from behavior in another relationship R’.

Here lies the sense of system, a joint of elements that establish relationships among them. This
definition is pretty general and enclosures all kinds of elements, either animate or not. What’s
fundamental on this definition is the term relationship, being that these relationships are what
identify the system.

Basically a system has two components one that can be considered physical made up of the
elements it groups: people and objects, the other, subtle component is formed by relationships
and bonds among such physical elements, what’s to say the way they rally and give its identity.

There are theoretically two kinds of systems, open and closed, however the closed system
cannot exist in this reality for if all the systems are interdependent, every system contains
another, the cell is a system contained in a greater one called organism contained in another
called Earth which is again contained in the solar system and so on, the Universe would be the
system containing the totality, and this would be considered as the only closed system.

System interdependence is the resource exchange between each other, which is nothing but
energy transference. Systems are but constitutive parts of its perennial movement.

The studies of phenomena taken care by physics and chemistry, where laws and postulates
have been derived are in theory studied upon closed systems, nevertheless there’s always the
consideration of the presence of stimuli generating the phenomenon and that stimulus is
external therefore yet in that case they can ’t be considered as closed systems.

An open system is defined as that which exchanges matter with the surrounding medium, and
exhibits imports and exports, constitution and degradation of its material components. It is clear
in this definition from Bertalanffy that he might consider Energy as that exchange matter.
Einstein, almost simultaneously posed his famous equation E=mc2 where the relationship
between mass and energy is established, being c, the speed of light, a constant.
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To be able to exist, an open system requires the exchange of energy and this applies to all of
them, either organisms or organizations. The coexistence of open systems is that permanent
energy exchange.

Within the organism, according to its physiology, many systems that interact with each other
are found, for example the respiratory system which captures oxygen, coming from another
greater system that contains the organism in it, and transfers said oxygen to the blood to be
distributed to the remaining systems for their functioning. The entire organism depends on this
process of permanent transference.

Open systems are interdependent to each other and require that permanent transference to
guarantee their subsistence as a system. The basic elements of an open system are the
following:

 The entry currents, that’s to say the energetic resources required by the system to work,
These are the elements the system imports to transform.
 Conversion process, constituted by all the elements and procedures that the system creates
and uses to transform imported resources.
 The exit currents, all the elements that are exported, being products, information or energy
itself.

A system will be viable if it survives, it means that with its exports it is capable of supplying its
import needs, being these last ones the requirements to keep active the conversion process
carried in its interior.

For the human being this is having the capacity to generate a product or service such that with
its sale he can supply his needs to continue the cycle. If he’s incapable of doing it, he possibly
will succumb in the process of life at an early stage.

From this analysis several fundamental characteristics of the systems arise :

 There is a binding component that allows that elements and relationships fuse in a
particular way for every system and make it possible to be, this component is denominated
Synergy.
 Open systems require permanently the external supply of resources, the difference
between imported resources and those exported is the internal consumption for
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production. Some part of those resources are losses caused by inefficiency of the system or
because of the reigning disorder, these losses are denominated Entropy.

 Open systems are not in equilibrium; they are permanently in movement and only possess
some relative equilibrium called homeostasis.
 The analysis of the interdependence between the entry and exit currents implies a process
of revision of the mechanism of conversion that is not other than a feedback.
 Systems can continuously reorganize themselves in order to lessen the level of entropy
thanks to an effective negative feedback and can transform making use of the self-
generated information as a positive feedback called Negentropy.
 Systems usually repeat processes, called Recursivity.
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Synergy

In the GTS, Bertalanffy talks about Gestalt, German Word meaning configuration, structure or
creation. The interpretation of the term given in the GTS is that a system has a tendency to
organization, that is, to conduct organized processes that allow its growth.

This basic concept is fundamental, an open system tends to be organized and that tendency to
structure is inherent in it. That tendency to merge components and relationships with the
purpose of organizing is the synergy, which is an inherent characteristic to open systems that
impels them into the definition of their structures in the quest of internal equilibrium. The
equilibrium is between the input resources, the output and those consumed in the process of
conversion. As there is loss of resources in the last one, the system must foresee permanently
its necessities so it will not succumb and stop being viable.

Synergy is the binding component that leads and directs the permanent development of the
open system to organize itself. It’s a proper characteristic but its dependent of the elements
that compose it, it is required an alignment of all of them to make the organization a reality. A
characteristic of organized systems is that it is more than the sum of its components; this
happens thanks to the synergy that exists in the system, without it, a system wouldn’t be more
than a group of elements incapable of interaction.

It is clear by the definition of synergy that this is the same vision of the organization, being this
one the element capable of rallying its components to the achievement of a common goal. A
system without synergy will not be able to organize itself, just like a group of people without
common vision will be incapable of forming an organization that evolves within time.

Synergy permits identity of the system as an independent entity among a set of interacting
systems. Human organism has its own synergy, which makes everyone an autonomous entity
that keeps all its subsystems bound and working at the unison towards the objective proposed
by that being in particular. That Synergy is the one that enables coordinated work of cells,
organs and systems and voids that cells attack among them.
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Entropy and Negentropy

The process of conversion of resources carried away by the system is subject to energy losses
caused by inner disorder. That disorder is called Entropy, which is a measurement of the
quantity of disorder within the system. Systems tend to disorder which is bigger as system
grows. That will be the system’s Entropy.

The increase of information and the quality of its flow within the organization is denominated
Negentropy. This term refers to the capacity of the organization to maintain itself in order, to
say, avoid the loss of resources in its processes.

Open systems are capable of diminishing their Entropy levels by retaining institutional order
and flow of information. Nonetheless Entropy will never have a zero value because such
situation would indicate lack of mobility inside the system, this means the system would
paralyze and as such would stop being.

Human organizations as open systems are exposed to the forces of Entropy. It’s because of it
that complete entities disappear, due to the loss of resources in wasteful processes for the
organization.

Entropy is a measurable quantity in the systems, is in fact an important variable for the design
of systems in informatics and in thermodynamic systems. In a human organization the
measurement of Entropy will be done through the detailed analysis of the loss of resources on
the processes executed by the organization. As it is a measure of organizational disorder, it is
important to analyze the drawdown of resources in those processes that don’t generate
anything to the entity, an example is long term maintenance of obsolete inventory for the
organization, and in this case there is dedication of resources to the maintenance of goods no
longer beneficial.

All those processes that generate expenses of resources and don’t report any benefit to the
productive chain can be defined as entropic and therefore are susceptible to improvement or
eradicated in order to diminish dead weight that burden the system.

According to GTS Negentropy is the contrary of Entropy for the latter is a measure of the
system’s disorder that causes definitive resource disappearance and the first is a sample of the
capacity to gain order by itself.
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They are really two different processes, logically opposed. Entropy is generated in the
disorganized growth of the system while Negentropy crops up as an ordering answer to the
level of entropy, that´s why reflection and learning proper to living rational organisms are a
result. Negentropy can be defined as the positive use of experience, from the information
generated by the system and used for its own development.

A system can extend its permanence by diminishing its entropy, with a minimization of the
dead weight; this is the loss of resources on unproductive processes. Negentropy reduces that
loss by the transformation of processes that refine the functioning and produce essential
changes in the system. With such changes the system is capable of giving qualitative leaps on its
development and structure that guarantee their permanence for longer time.

The concepts of Entropy and Negentropy are associated with those of efficiency and efficacy.
The greater the Entropy, more inefficient is the system, as it requires more energy to perform
its duty, and the greater the system´s Negentropy the greater its efficacy will be, as it will carry
out smarter processes of development whose results are better with minimum resources.
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Feedback

Entropy is the most critical variable to control in an open system, being that its increase con
lead to the system´s destruction due to resource deployment. Higher entropy levels are like a
sink where the resources drain away, it is essential to establish ways to measure and maintain
the entropy under control. Such process of measure and control is nothing more than a real
feedback within the production circuit.

Likewise when the Negentropy level increases its indication that the quality of information is
greater within the system, that information is a product of the system that remains in it. This
product has the characteristic that even though it is of exportation, it´s something that remains
in the system. It is part of the energy that has been transformed that stays there. The greater
the self-generated information belonging to a system, higher its Negentropy will be, and in
turn, indicates the entropy levels decrease.

There are two different kinds of feedback, the first one that tends to diminish entropy and the
second one that increases Negentropy, a system must possess both kinds of feedback for an
organization incapable of generating information will show up high entropy levels, as an
organization that is focused on the development of information will be able to produce such
high levels, being that Negentropy is contrary to entropy.

Two kinds of feedback exist in an open system, these are positive and negative feedback. The
negative is focused on the reduction of entropy levels, this by the detection of resource loss in
unproductive processes within the system, this feedback will generate a reduction in the
entropy improving the performance of the system, making this one more efficient for there will
be less requirement of resources to generate the same export products.

The other way is positive feedback. The capacity to generate information is one of the main
characteristics of open systems, and the better the information is, so is system´s efficiency.
When such information is used to improve a process within the system the feedback is positive
and shows a truthful development for itself. The system is now more efficient, less resources to
generate better export products.
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ORGANIZATIONAL ENERGETICS

INTRODUCTION

Throughout the sections beforehand a path with different visions of human organization has
been sighted, from which the following can be concluded:

 Human organization is a rational living being whose main components are human beings,
living organisms formed likewise by systems of cells
 Human organism and organization are open systems.
 Living organisms require energy for their functioning.
 Synergy is the element that brings identity to the system.
 Systems tend to permanent decay.
 Systems have the capacity to reorder according to appropriate use of information
generated by them.
 There is an energetic cycle which is applicable to every living being or idea that permits
understanding of its process and development.

The objective of Organizational Energetics is to provide the tools that allow the design or
transformation of organizations in such a way that they can become real promoters of
evolution for the human being and by extension to the whole mankind.

Preceding sections have served as a preamble to enter the body of this work. Human
organizations are diseased, from the couple and the family to the society in general passing by
governmental institutions, service, educational, religious, commercial corporations, , all of them
show symptoms of bad functioning

The disease, established in the Organizational Physiology section, happens at the cellular level,
that´s to say that when an organ or system show the disease it means that many of the
individuals conforming it already suffer from the disease. Organizational Energetics is focused
on the health of the individual being this one the basis of the organization, of all organizations.

Undoubtedly illnesses are processes that affect the flow of energy in the organism. On one side
there is needed much resources to fight against it, resources that on a normal state could be
employed for other ends. There´s the case for tumoral diseases in which there´s energy theft
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from the tumor which is acting as an alien individual living within the organism, extracting
resources that he requires for living.

This diversion of resources causes general erosion of the system that may lead to total paralysis
and death of the individual or bankruptcy in case of the organizations. When illnesses become
chronic, the organism must generate enough energy to maintain its vital state and also to
supply the energetic requirements of the disease, critical situation that in time deteriorates and
the cost is paid by the sane organs of the organism.

A sick organism becomes incapable of creating, of carrying out voluntary acts. If the disease
persists for a long time, each time it will be harder for the organism to carry away such creative
activities, and movement. By and by the system becomes unproductive and expensive
resource-wise.

This brief introduction about the disease to enter the analysis of the weakened organization.
It’s clear that on such state the productive apparatus is affected, locomotion declines and
disorder can be increased, deteriorating to a much further extent the situation.
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Symptoms of a weakened organization

According to the General Theory of Systems, Entropy is a measure of disorder within the
organism, an over-cost that must be paid in order for the system to work properly, such over-
cost tends to increase with time, meaning that the systems require more energy every time to
achieve its commitment. Higher entropy is long term lower production capacity.

The first symptoms of organizational weakness are seen on its productive apparatus: the
generation of resources for itself. When the organization notices that production decreases as
much as in quantity as in quality there´s a serious symptom that must be revised with
promptitude and opportunity. Generally low productivity is related to another symptom that
is slightly harder to notice and that is individual or collective lack of motivation, this symptom is
directly related to those individuals that feel that the organization doesn´t fulfill their personal
needs, of one kind are another. An individual who is not motivated will no produce.

Other aspect related to low productivity is high costs. Productivity is the difference between
incomes and expenses. If expenses rise, utility is less which means the same for productivity. An
increase in the expenses can be an indicator of an increase of organizational disorder or a
resource theft, or even both, generally one leads to the other.

Productivity is also affected, apparently, by the surroundings when it is incapable of responding

to the environment and its needs. This symptom is related to lack of foresight, the scarcity of
long term planning, it is simply that the organization can become aware that it has been
excluded from the system it belonged and now has stopped receiving resources from the
system. Critical situation for an organization. These symptoms of organizational weakness show
the problems of their production systems, of control, of prevention, and in many cases of
general directioning.
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Energy on the organization

Energy in the organization is represented in every material, informatics, financial and human
resources that it generates and requires for its optimal functioning. Only for analysis effects in
this section, human beings will be considered as a resource, being that for Organizational
Energetics these are the organization itself, not a resource.

Material resources are all of those elements required for the organization to carry away its
activities such as raw material, equipment, tools, gear, and physical assets. They represent
energy because the lack of them may signify a block in the production and therefore the
generation of other resources thus stopping or hindering the energy flow, besides constituting
elements to be transformed or to transform others, which finally are the products of the
organization that likewise represent energy.

Informatics and communication resources, that may include networks and transmission
equipment, and storage of information, constitute an energy resource for they possess the
knowledge, experience and process of the organization. Information is energy itself and the
communication the medium by which the whole process of organizational development is
carried away.

Clearly financial resources constitute the oxygen of organizations. Money is essential for its
development because it is the vehicle employed to satisfy its own needs and of its conforming
members.

The human energetic resource is also fundamental for the organization, without it simply it
loses its capacity of doing, to create, develop and exist. All of these capacities of the
organization depend on the capacities of its members and their Energy.
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Energetic flow in the Organization.

In the Bioenergetics section the energetic cycle of the being according tho the Pa-Kua was
shown in Figure 1. On organizational terms the cycle is the following:

 The organization is conceived from a strong idea capable of designing a structure able to
create itself.
 On its first stage the organization is formed thanks to the strength of this initial idea
becoming stronger with the aid of Energy, meaning resources which come from the
exterior.
 Afterwards it defines its vision for it brings clarity of the achievement to obtain and the
strength to bind together the members of the organization.
 The organization protects itself thanks to the joined and cooperative work that provide
stability on the long term
 All the organization enjoys the success of its projects, conceived with its according flow of
resources to guarantee its own prosperity.
 Opposing forces gain understanding and cohesion in such a way that they permit a space of
acceptance that promotes creativity and leadership.
 The organization hastily looks after the achievement of its objectives through coordinated
work, continuous and with effort, thanks to the acceptance and commitment of all its
components.
 The organization self-controls and gives permanent feedback to itself, leaving aside any
process that withdraw energy from it, that generate disorder and forfeiture, promoting
permanent transformation, that means a rebirth, restarting the cycle.

The owners are those who concieve the idea, they shape it and give it vision facilitating its birth,
from there on the organization comes into possesion of enough infrastructure for its
permanent development easing the cycle. Said infrastructure must focus on the consecution of
resources to guarantee its top condition existance, being efficatious and efficient, that´s to say
supported on an optimal management and protecting itself with clear vision and knowledge of
itself and its surrounding environment. In other terms the organization must be seen as shown
on Figure 2.
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Top
Management

Production

Control

Protection

Figura 2. La Organización básica.

This kind of organization has solid direction with direct channels of communication with its
three fundamental systems: production, control and protection. Likewise there is
interdependance among the three systems with direct communication channels.

To assure progress of the organization it´s very important to understand the flow of energy
itself. There are different kinds of energy feeding the entity, money is one of them, but not the
only one, Financial resources are to the organization as oxygen is to the human organism.

By analogy it is understood that the organization requires other energetic resources for its
development. In the human being there is a self-realizing force that pushes him into the
achievement of his goals. In the same way, that force exists in the organization, constituted by
the synergy, or corporate mystic, this envelopes all the commitment, values and principles that
allow the entity to conform, transform and linger on throughout time.

Other energetic resource in the human being are conformed by nutrients, they could be the
material resources necessary to carry away the processes. And it is not the money; it is the way
it is invested in the organization. The digestive system carries out an analytical process of foods
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and absorbs only what it needs, just like the resource flow within organizations must be
maintained.

The Sun is other important source of energy for the organism, represents a contact with the
outer world and works directly with the nervous system, the control entity. This means that
contact with the outer world is fundamental for the organization, feedback coming from
outside and with direct contact with the control entity will permit the strengthening or the
organization, the maintenance of the inner temperature and permanent reanimation.

Energy must flow rapidly in the organization just like oxygen is taken and distributed without
any delay throughout the whole organism. Energy blocks must be attended at the right time, as
any responsible being does when noticing the symptoms that affect its organism and the
organization must remain alert of external changes to act with haste in front of them, that´s to
say to have a quick capacity of response to change, remaining flexible.

There are two fundamental elements that may determine the quality and degree of
organizational development: communication and information. Communication is the way how
information flows, being this last one a source of energy itself. Because of this a good part of
organizational development is focused on establishing and caring after the links between
systems, organs and individuals. The quality and clarity of such links determine the capacity of
the organization to generate its own development.

Comprehension and study of the handling of information is essential to comprehend the

entropic process, for it is the main generator of energy loss. Organizations must strive to
understand and if it’s the case to improve the interoperational links with the purpose to
minimize entropy.

The basic structure illustrated in Figure 2 shows the minimal interdependent systems
fundamental in the organization. Top Management or General Direction has the responsibility
over the organization’s synergy, vision, leadership and strategic lining. The production system
has the responsibility of generating and distributing the resources. The measurement and
control is in charge of the control of processes, and the protection systme must look after
human and organizational development to guarantee its permanence.

Every system has its esential and fundamental function, thus general management is
responsible as much as for strategich planning as for the organizational structure; the
production system of the generation of value: the control is responsible of the reduction of
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entropy and the protection one is incharge of general and individual motivation. This way the
organization flows correctly and can guarantee its long term permanence.

Organizational Energetics, based upon the General Theory of Systems, Organizational

Phisyology, and Bioenergetics permits the implementation of a structure of the organization
supprted on a solid Strategic Humanistic Planning, focused on human development, real
generation of value, permanent motivation and a control system and of effective management,
these are the subjects developed on the next five sections.

The energetic study of the organization provides a comprehensive vision of it, showing those
elements relevant for their development favorable of the evolution of the human beings
comforming it, who rightfully stimulated and motivated will make the organization stay in
permanent evolution.
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HUMANISTIC STRATEGIC PLANNING

Objective of the Strategic Planning

For Organizational Energetics Strategic Planning is the main utility to guarantee the
development and permanence of the organization whatever the ambit it operates in. The
energetic flow of the organization has two fundamental elements: the first one is constituted
by an organizational structure designed to permit the efficient and effective performance, this
is to guarantee the resources for the whole organization to perform correctly minimizing their
loss; the second one is Strategic Planning which serves as guide for said organization to achieve
its objectives.

Before heading deep into the matter it is important to clarify the term humanistic that is
employed in Organizational Energetics. According to what was stated in the previous sections
human organization is a conglomerate of living rational beings becoming itself a living organism
with the same characteristics. The organization´s objective is to tend towards the evolution of
its members and for that reason it must focus its resources and processes to its development
and protection. Strategic planning, correctly designed and implemented, will guarantee the
fulfillment of that objective.

Strategic planning is a process that begins from the very conception of the idea and is of
permanent character as a way to adjust the organization to the external and internal changes
that arise. From the Organizational Energetics it is considered as an integral process because it
must promote global development of all its conforming systems in a synchronized and balanced
way. Clarity in the definition of objectives, vision, permits the definition of the way the
development will be carried away, the mission, from which the definition of the structure
capable of generating the necessary resources for its survival shows up, with efficient and
efficacious management, the control system and a clear politics of development, the protection
system.

Strategic directioning is the leading process of all organizational processes and the one capable
of guaranteeing its development and permanence in the field it performs. Without strategic
directioning the organization is doomed to failure.
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Strategic Planning and the Energy Flow

Energy flow is intimately tied to Strategic Planning. Every element of the latter are defined in
the energetic cycle described in the previous sections in the following way:

 Conception of the Idea.

 Gestation of the Idea.
 Birth of the Idea.
 Upbringing of the Idea.
 Realization of the Idea.
 Devaluation of the Idea.
 Weakening of the Idea.
 Transformation or Death of the Idea

This is the energy flow of an idea, a project, a being or an organization described in the I Ching,
actively maintained from three thousand years ago. The fundamental elements from the Pa-
Kua, and that are a part of Strategic Planning are the following:

 The Idea as generating force, base of the project, seed of the vision and the organization.
 The background that originates it, such as the environment, the managers and the
budgeted objectives.
 The gestation period is an intense planning process and of basic formation of the inner
systems that will give consistency to the project promoting the basic approach, the
principles and values that will sway over the organization.
 The development of the structure. With the frame perfectly designed the structure takes
form and becomes real, ready for its birth.
 The vision as binding force. When the organization is born it acquires several faculties it
didn’t have before: it breathes by itself, it means it provides its own resources. The
dependency to its progenitors is over and it acquires Vision as the capacity to unite, guide
and lead the development process.
 The self-protection mechanism. The organization promotes its own protection, as to say the
permanence maintenance of its forming parts leaded and guided by its managers (founders)
 The creative realization of the project. The organization executes its projects which in turn
constitute its resources generation.
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 The control mechanism. Permanent check up of the processes, measurement of

management and its results that permit the verification of the correct organizational
functioning.
 The field of action: Mission, Values and principles. Even though these are defined since the
period of the gestation, the Mission must be checked when the control mechanism turns on
its alarms indicating problems at the interior of the organization. These problems indicate
dangerous build up of entropy that means loss of energy and therefore crisis within the
organizational process.
 Permanent transformation or Death of the project. The process of self-reflection generated
by internal or external crisis promote changes in the organization that may take it to its
transformation or its death depending on how deep the reflection goes and the capacity of
the organization to respond in the time of crisis.

The cycle restarts here now that the transformation must generate an idea that must be
conceived, restating the vision, the structure and the organization. The main element in this
new stage of the process is the Negentropy, the capacity to make use of the acquired
knowledge to apply it on itself redesigning the internal processes to minimize entropy to the
maximum. High levels of Synergy are required in this stance because at this point, the
organization faces disintegration.

Here it can be seen clearly how the general theory of systems applies totally in human
organizations: The emergence of entropy is the trigger, the feedback is the process to review
and in the Negentropy the answer, all of them carried away by a powerful synergy that can take
the organization into a successful transformation.

As it will be noticed further, these three elements are related with the capacity to generate
value, minimize degradation and maintain motivation, the three main objectives of the
organization and primordial functions of the production systems, the control and protection
systems respectively. Synergy, i.e. the binding force, is linked with Vision and therefore of the
high management of the organization’s business. The cycle of the energetic flow describes the
organizational process plus equally showing clearly the need of the process of strategic
planning and the understanding of the organization as a system as well as a living organism.
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Structuration Vision

Protection and
Conception
Development

Transformation Realisation

Revising of the Measurement

Mission and Control

Figure 4. Energetic Cycle

The organization, as the being remains in the center, keeping itself in permanent equilibrium
facing the forces that affect it. To achieve that equilibrium the organization must be revised
continuously, analyzing and rearticulating before its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and
threats.

The process of strategic planning permits the execution of that revision and permanent
transformation, that’s why it is an activity that must be carried out at every moment and be
frequently checked. The whole process is build up upon a clear vision that allows the definition
of a consistent mission. The Vision is the objective while the Mission is the mean to achieve it,
from them the organization is designed and done as described in the following:
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WOST

Organizational
Structure

Mission, Values and

Principles

VISION

Figure 5. The Process of Strategic Planning.

These four levels of strategic planning are the foundations of the organization: The Vision gives
north, the Mission, values and principles define how, the organizational structure is the form
and the WOST analysis allows the permanent revising of internal processes, of how it is affected
by the surroundings as well as its capacity to react in front of these circumstances. It’s
important to take into account that said analysis must be carried in the totality of the
organizational processes.
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Element s of the Strategic Planning

On this section the four basic elements of the Strategic Planning will be studied: The Vision, the
Mission, the principles and the values; in the next section the guidelines of the organizational
structure going deeper into its organic conformation that facilitates its development.

The Vision is the most important element on which the Strategic Planning is build upon, and the
organization itself. IN the two first stages of the organizational process, the entity depends on
external forces for its strengthening and development, even though the idea has its own force
to execute the process, it requires totally of its creators to be able to reach the moment of
birth. When it is born the first thing it does is breathing, this act is very significant to its life, it
means it depends on itself to assure its existence, this first breath separates it from the original
energy sources and leaves it on its own responsibility the development of its life.

Vision define all of its structure and built it during the conception and gestation, now
everything else depends on its own strength, which is given by the Vision, that becomes that
revelation that shows the objective of the existence of the entity, that what is wanted to
become and the power to create, recreate and transform itself:

• It is the Strength that emerges from the interior itself of the organization.
• It is the Light that illuminates and guides the organization.
• It is the Clarity that identifies.
• It is the Corporate Identity.
• It is the Heart of the organization.
• It is what distributes the energy and gives passion.
• It is the Fire that keeps the organization alive.
• It is the Force that binds and impulses.
• It is the Integrity that forges and builds.

The main intrinsic elements of the Vision are the following: Strength, Light, Clarity, Identity,
Heart, Energy, Creation, Passion, Fire, Cohesion, Impulse, and Integrity.

Vision and Synergy are two synonymous terms. Synergy is the binding force, it gives identity to
the system and permits that the individuals associated to it feel synchronized and connected
with it. The Vision is that same force that constitutes the fire that gathers around it. The Vision
is the force of the idea about to become real, the Synergy if the force of the idea becoming
reality. They are expressions of the same concept
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The Energy of the organization is the Vision/Synergy in action. The movement originated by the
Vision is the Energy generated by itself, after birth, i.e. the formulation of the vision; the
organization will focus on the strengthening of that emerging Energy that is the objective of the
Mission. Vision brings empowering and this empowerment brings identity. Power is the
capacity to define and realize oneself. With a clear Vision, the organization will know how to
embark on track.

The formulation of the vision is not an easy process. It must above all contain the essence of
the original idea, the one that motivated the conception and the gestation. The Vision must be
defined in simple terms, where possible it will be a short, assertive phrase.

To formulate it, it is fundamental to make a profound and detailed analysis of the original idea.
As the word states it, the Vision is the visualization of the organization in a given period of time.
It is a definition of the perception at the end of a period of time. The reach of the definition of
the Vision limits the time in which it will be carried away. A lazy Vision may determine a very
short life span.

The forcefulness of the Vision gives the strength the organization requires for its development,
or to say the capacity to generate permanent Synergy to execute what´s proposed by the
Vision.

The Vision marcs the direction of the organization, therefore it must be established by the
managing (founders, promoters) associates and be accepted unanimously. That unity permits
coordinated work, it eases the formulation and development of the Mission.

On an emerging organization, the first labor of the managing associates is the formulation of
the Vision and the strengthening of synergy, elements that bring the initial energy for the entity
to overcome the first stages of its development.

In the case of an organizational transformation, which is preformed in an existing organization,

it is important to review and redefine the vision, now that it surely is worn out or achieved. The
process of reformulation of the Vision must then include all the forming members of the entity,
as Organizational Energetics sees the organization as the mean to self-realization for all of its
members and the vision must be in for all.
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This process of reformulation must begin from the top to the bottom, that’s to say first the Top
management, formed by the associates and the general direction, following next with the
second level managers and afterwards with the rest of the organization.

The diffusion of the Vision is directly tied to the process of information within the organization.
On an emerging entity the way that the Vision is divulged is fundamental to the healthy
development of the Vision, having into account that it is the initial source of Energy, if said
diffusion is not efficient, the organization will begin to lose resources, generate disorder, thus
Entropy is starting to generate.

In the case of a restatement of the Vision on an already constituted organization, the process of
divulgation is far more important, due to the realignment that must be taken and the following
organizational transformation that must be generated.

While the vision establishes the end of the road, the achievement, the objective, the Mission
defines the way it must be reached. When the Vision is clear, the formulation and the
development of the Mission can happen in an almost spontaneous way as this defines the work
that must be done, it’s the What of the organization and from it its importance within the
process of Strategic Planning. It’s the object and the form to execute.

The Mission establishes and gives form to the corporate identity. Defines the specific
objectives, establishes differences with other entities and the way how it will carry away its
objectives and constitutes itself into the manifestation of the Energy spawned in the Vision.
Manifestation that signifies the form, the body itself, in other words from the Mission the
organizational structure is defined that will permit the achievement of the Vision.

In an emerging organization the design of the organizational structure must be a simple, clear
process, having into account the ease of the flow of information and the minimization of losses.
Basically an organization must be designed and carried out that holds the three fundamental
systems and that the links between them and with the high management be clear, direct and
practical.

The formulation of the Mission implies the design of the structure and therefore the definition
of functions and objectives at cellular, organic and systemic levels. This is the hardest job of the
strategic planning process and directly related with the values and principles of the
organization, as this define the ethical frame of the organization.
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When it happens that it’s a reformulation of the mission within existent organizations, the
process implies revising of the whole structure, measurement of the losses because of Entropy,
revising and restatement of the links between all the components of the entity. A detailed
diagnosis of the organization must be carried and based upon it and the new vision, a detailed
plan of transformation in the structure must be done.

The formulation of the mission implies an excellent comprehension of the Vision and is one of
the most important works in Strategic Planning, as it defines the objectives of the organization
and the structure that will develop them, in other words, it defines in itself the whole entity and
its identity.

During the first stage of Planning, the formulation of the vision, the manager participated and in
the case or a reorganization, at the least second level managers. In that first stage the planning
entity must have been consolidated or at least a committee being named, seed of said system.

The second stage, the formulation of the Mission will be carried away in at least two stages, the
first one being the definition of general objectives of the organization and the basic structure.
The second one is the job at systemic level, that’s to say the establishment of objectives and
structure in the different systems conforming the organization.

The formulation and revision of the Mission, as all of the Strategic Planning, is a permanent
process due to the permanent information received from the control entity and in such a case
will take necessary measures for its reformulation and modification of the organizational
structure, which can be as simple and basic as the restatement of the functions to the change
of structures and objectives. The structure must, in the possible be kept in a level that
generates low Entropy, meaning that it’s able to be kept in a size where communication and
information flows rapidly and efficiently.

The objectives of the organization are its general and specific directives; these must be clear,
direct and constitute the base for the definition of the politics and programs that will be
developed by the entity.

Initially the corporate objectives are defined, which will help to achieve the Vision and build the
structure. From these objectives the general politics will be worked upon to achieve them.
Later the specific objectives will be formulated for every conforming system of the organization
and the way this systems will develop the general politics, from which the respective programs
will be designed.
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In the process of Strategic Planning the formulation of objectives is permanent and must be
revised in front of external and internal changes, this may imply changes in politics and
programs. When the organization is understood as a whole, the formulation of the specific
objectives of the different systems will be aligned with the general objectives of the
corporation.

The Vision gives the strength of the Organization; the Mission establishes the structure to
develop that Vision. The principles, values and politics constitute the frame where the Mission
of the entity will be taken care. The definition of these elements is essential for the
development of the organization and the individuals that give form to it or those related with it
and the surrounding where it carries away its activity.

The main objective of the Organizational Energetics is to contribute in the construction of

organizations that promote human evolution. For that reason it pretends to develop businesses
with conscience, which are aware of themselves and their basic component: the individual.

For that organization where the human being is respected at all levels are posed, likewise the
respect goes towards all the manifestations and existing organizations, within an environment
of promotion and individual and group development that really present alternatives of healthy
evolution for the whole mankind and therefore global development.

Any activity that tries to harm the human being and any living organism whatsoever, in a
physical, moral o spiritual way, goes against the personal or group process of evolution, and will
not have any place in the conception of new structure within Organizational Energetics.

Work upon the principles and values imply a self-study of all of the individuals that constitute
the organization and the Organizational Ethics is directly related with all the people related to
it. Organizational Energetics poses the development of a consciousness of the enterprise
promoting authentic personal evolution. Likewise it poses important questionings for society
and organizations in the way to carry away this promotion of personal evolution.

The main subject on this corporate consciousness arousal has to deal with Corruption. In the
second part of this work, Organizational Physiology, under the part of the Cell Corruption is
defined as any activity that breaks the Heart. This organ is the source of Energy of the organism,
if this source is destroyed, the being lies without strength or hope. An organization that
promotes human evolution cannot allow this destruction of its components.
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It’s simple and complete ethics. The organization must defend the lives of its individual
components, as these constitute its own life and sanity.

Based upon what´s said, the formulation of principles and values will become a simple and
logical activity. Nonetheless the process implies personal comprehension at all levels of the
own responsibility towards life and respect for the whole process of global evolution.
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Long term Strategic Planning

It is important to know the interaction of the organization with the external world for the
development of the Mission and the organizational structure, the systems with which it
interacts. A useful instrument to analyze internal and external conditions is the design and
implementation of the WOST matrix.

WOST matrix is a job performed by all the organization, where weaknesses, opportunities,
strengths and threats are detailed to clarify them afterwards in such a way they allow to see
the actual state of the organization, which elements need to be improved, what opportunities
are available, and which others can be left behind to be able to redesign the Strategic Planning
every time and transform the organizational structure according to the needs that become
explicit with this work.

Weaknesses are the organizational deficiencies, those elements where the organization suffers
the loss of resources that delay the development of the objectives and get in the way of the
progress of the entity. The weakness can be a symptom of lack of Vision and undoubtedly is an
incapability to achieve the Mission. Showing a lack of strength is symptom of disease.

Opportunities are the options present in the market that haven’t been currently explored by
the organization and that pose an option to generate new resources and progress. The
opportunity may generate Energy movements.

Strength is an expression of clarity of Vision, it shows empowerment, correct handling of

resources and reflects growth and immunity. Strengths are those areas and elements where the
organization is really strong and correctly sustained will generate a better development of the
organization. Some may need further strengthening, in other cases these will be genuine
columns for organizational progress.

Threats are those external and internal situations that endanger the development and even
worse the existence of the organization. WOST analysis permits to know them and to take
action according with the degree of threat they represent.

This is a work that must be leaded by Top Management and directed to the lower levels of the
organization. It involves a complete study of the internal and external relationships, including
clients and suppliers. The formulation will begin with a general listing of weaknesses, strengths,
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opportunities and threats that will be revised afterwards to detect those with the greater
importance in the development of the organization.

The cleaned up listing is organized in such a way that the strengths face the opportunities and
the weaknesses against the threats, like this:

Figure 6. WOST Matrix

For each of the facings the following questions are raised and cualified:
 Does this strength allow developing this opportunity?
 Does this strength protect against this threat?
 Does this weakness affect the exploitation of this opportunity?
 Does this weakness make vulnerable to this threat?

Each question is evaluated, a 0 represents NO, 1 is moderate, 2 mean that it is strong, and 3
very strong. These answers are averaged for every opportunity and for every threat, which
permits to determine what are the best strengths and the greater weaknesses. This work will
reveal the weaknesses to be strengthened and those highlights that must be emphasized due to
their success as organization.
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Later then each quadrant is averaged, which will result in a score for every one of them. That
quadrant with the highest score will determine the path to follow in Strategic Planning.

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OFFENSIVE PROTECTION

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REORGANIZATION SUBSISTENCE

 Subsistence: The organization is in intensive care; it doesn’t have enough resources and
must take a time out to strengthen.
 Reorganization: The organization has structural weaknesses that don’t permit it to carry
away its mission and must be totally replanted.
 Protection: The organization has enough strength but the threats are capable of putting it in
danger, it must strengthen more.
 Offensive: The organization is in an excellent moment and must go ahead in the conquest of
all the opportunities.

The WOST analysis allows to have a radiograph of the organization in the moment that it is
carried out and therefore is becomes a tool to develop and support the process of Strategic
Planning, which must be permanent within the organization.

Strategic Planning is additionally fundamental to maintain the corporate Vision up to date,

that’s why it is one of the fundamental elements of the organization and of its structure, with
the same importance of the production system and the system of control.

The importance of Strategic Planning consists on its faculty to protect and keep the
organization alive; it’s the system that guarantees its realization.
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Development of the Organizational Structure

The organizational development is the set of activities and processes which permit the entity to
be formed, developed and maintained in its active life, full of realization and it spans as much
as the structure as well as the necessary resources to carry away fully its objective.

From the structure´s point of view, the organizational development comprehends the design
and materialization, in such a way it produces the proposed goods and services, which will
eventually guarantee the progress of the organization.

The structure must be designed in such a way that said production is efficient and efficacious,
with an optimal resource management. This implies that the operational infrastructure on its
own is enough, requires additionally of the control organism, which looks after the processes in
such a way that said degrees of efficiency and efficacy can be determined. As those goods and
services are focused on the exterior, towards other systems, called clients, the organization
must seek for its own protection or long term survival, strengthening itself to face external
changes; this is the protection entity that includes three important areas of the organization:
the organizational development itself, the development of human talent and the strategic
planning.

The production system is in charge of generating the resources through the goods and services,
also distributing the required resources for the operation of the whole organization. The
control system checks and supervises the processes to guarantee the correct usage of the
resources. The protection system maintains the organization to withstand successfully the
external changes that affect it directly.

With the initial Strategic Planning the achievement, the objectives, the development frame and
the general mediums for the organization are established. With the Organizational
development the form is established and modified according to said planning.

The Organizational Development includes, specially, the formulation, realization, launch and
evaluation of the systems and programs that permit the consecution of objectives. Likewise, all
the creation of a corporate culture that identifies and strengthens Synergy is part of the
organizational development.
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From Organizational Energetics point of view, the development of the organization is intimately
tied with the comprehension of the flow of energy and resources, for which it looks after the
maintenance of the information and communication channels for these are the fundamental
elements of the entity.

The structure constitutes the medium for the realization of the objectives of the organization,
not the end in itself, and as such it will be subject to changes in a permanent way as it will be
required. It must be strong, capable of developing the mission it was conceived and generated
for. It will be efficient; this means it will require the minimum use of resources to perform
optimally. It will be efficacious; it means it will generate the best actions in the least amount of
time and with the least usage of resources. It will be flexible in such a way that it can move and
adapt to internal and external changes. It will have the capacity of self-reflection and
regeneration.

The effectiveness of the structure depends in the quality of the ties that keep it together, such
ties are the inter-organic relationships and the clarity of the definitions of the functions of the
organs. In the living organism, each element from which it is made of serves to at least one
specific function. Cells, organs, and systems work coordinately to achieve the objectives of the
body and the being. In the same way, it is fundamental that in the organization the functions be
well defined, established and controlled.

Likewise, in the organism, systems and organism interact permanently; it is not possible to
conceive a heart that doesn’t communicate with the brain or a liver that doesn’t speak to the
stomach. The ties are clearly established and the metabolic process develops permanently. The
communication is established through the circulatory system, being the blood the mean to do
it. Arteriosclerosis is a sample of the deficiencies of communication on the interior of the
organism, the increase of Entropy that would lead the organism to its destruction. The ties in
the organization act in the same way and communication channels must remain free from
obstacles to avoid strokes.

Systems in the organism are groupings of organs that carry out vital functions, there are
dependencies among them, the digestive system for instance consists of several organs, all of
them with the same importance and dependent of each other, esophagus, stomach and
intestines interact to provide the nutrients to the organism, they are interdependent. In the
same way it happens in the organization, for instance in the production system of a business
the commercial department depends on the production to sell the products thus generating the
required resources.
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The functions will be individual when they are distinctive of each specific member of the
organization; function is organic when they compete to an activity carried away by a group, for
example the accounting functions are from the dependency called Accountant; Function is
Systemic when they correspond to a complete area of the organization.

The relationships and ties are of dependency within the same system and of support when they
are carried out between systems. The quality of the communication channels, of the
relationships and ties is the basis of success of the organizational structure; they represent the
arteries of the organization.

Every organization, according to the definition of systems, is a set of functional elements that
establish links between them. The basic organizational structure has a top direction, a
production system, one system of control and other of protection. Each of them has its own
functions also known as systemic and others of a relational kind in a way that they allow the
action of the others on each of them. The protection system generates and distributes the
resources to the whole organization, the control is in charge of verifying the functioning of all
organs and systems, the protection will look after the correct development of all the members
of the organization while the top direction is in charge of binding together and leading all the
organizational process.

The Top Direction is the holder of the corporate Vision and therefore the fundamental motor,
creator, motivator and leader of the organization, it´s the clarifying force, binding and
managing. It is composed by three organs: The board of members, the presidency and the
general management, which constitute the essential elements of the organization. The basic
function of Top management is to establish the corporate objectives according to the
consented vision of the members and investors that allow the sane development of all the
people linked to the organization.

The board of members will actively work in the formulation of the Vision, Mission, the
corporate values and the politics of the organization with the purpose of building a solid,
efficient, innovative and leading organization in the medium it performs. The reasons of their
association must be clear and transparent so as to allow the conception of a dynamic
organization, congruent to an honest and effective communication.

The presidency is the center itself of the organization, leader and communicator. It leads the
development of the plan devised by the stockholders to make the organization a reality through
clear, concise and transparent communication towards the entire corporation. Equally leads all
the processes appointed to the three essential systems: Production, Protection and Control
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The general management is the driver to the materialization of the organization, leads,
supervises and modifies the critical processes related with the general management of the
resources of the organization. The Vision is the most important source of Energy inside the
organization and the Top Management has the responsibility to retain and distribute it. From
this point of view, this entity is the heart of the organization and therefore a motor to itself.
From it the Energy flows to the entire structure.

Likewise, it is in charge of looking after said flow, in other words it constitutes the brain of the
organization, as headmaster of the control entity. And finally as the guardian of the Vision, it’s
the center of the protection system for it must preserve the maintenance of the organization.
The management of information is inherent to the Top Direction, essential process in the
organization being intimately tied to the energetic flow within the same.

The capacity to generate Synergy is directly joined to the unity and strength of the Top
Management, Vision is the binding force, Synergy is the way this adherence comes true and is
distributed to the entire organization. When the clarity of the message from the Vision gets to
the entire organization, the latter develops a mystic, that’s the Synergy that identifies and
establishes the difference with other organizations.

Top management as heart of the organization must watch over that the channels of
communication remain open and free from obstacles. A way of quantifying the Entropy is to
know the way the communication flows within the organization, when this doesn’t occur
correctly, information loss is generated, that’s nothing more than Energy loss.

The development of the organizational culture is a fundamental task of the Top Direction, being
this tied to the Synergy and the development of the personal commitment to the organization.
The way said culture is spread is part of the development of the corporation.

The production system is in charge of generating and distributing all the resources that the
organization needs to remain vital and carry away its mission thus making real its vision. This is
why the production system is in charge of organizing all the wealth generating activity and the
management of resources in such a way that is assured that all the different elements of the
organization are duly provided of resources to assure the optimum functioning.

The production system take care of realizing the Strategic Plan, by giving form to the vision, in
comprehending and materializing the mission and that way developing the organizational
structure required to translate such vision, to transform it into a reality. It equals in the
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organism to the respiratory, digestive, cutaneous, renal and circulatory systems, depending on
the heart, the top Director, for their correct functioning.

The production system is in charge of transforming the Energy, taking it from the exterior it
builds the processes that are responsible for creating new products and services. These
processes are the main consumers of resources. The resources are lost in the clutter of
organizations; this is the concept of Entropy. The production system must design and build
processes which minimize the loss. It is impossible to create such systems without losses, which
is called dead load, then really does not make any profit, is a real resource loss.

While measuring the Entropy is a function of the control system, responsibility for the
management of it is inherent in the production. Entropy is directly proportional to the size of
the organization, and as communication channels enlarge, it is increasing the chance of losing
information.

The Negentropy is the quality of the organization to generate information that is in its own
growth, i.e. the facility to retain part of the energy that the organization has transformed itself.
This quality is part of the feedback circuit, and hence the control system, but the design and
management of that energy redistribution is again the responsibility of the production system.

Production system objectives are to create systems with minimal losses and great capacity to
create and reuse of internal information. The policies and programs of the organization,
conceived from the Mission during the Strategic Planning are designed and put into service by
the production system. Such policies and programs really have no reason to be if they are not
executed in the production system. Thus policies of quality and customer satisfaction are not
tools of the organization if they are not fully developed, would otherwise be elements of
resource consumption and attitude throughout the organization would not agree with the
principle of honesty.

Also programs that seek organizational development must be recent and adjusted to the
structure. Highlighted programs are logistics, inventory control and informatics that must
facilitate the production process of the organization.

The control system is responsible for overseeing the entire operation of the organization to
verify the optimum operation of each employee, group and system. In case of malfunction will
take reasonable steps to correct it. It assimilates the human body's nervous system.
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The control system must monitor the proper management of all resources for this organization
and design manuals for personnel functions and processes required by it. It is also responsible
for designing, implementing and carrying out the Quality program within the company, since
this program is the main tool of control and measurement of the entire organization.

To measure corporate performance, the system is responsible for designing, implementing and
developing the program in customer satisfaction that will additionally allow for better
interaction with them latter, and provide the tools for effective feedback.

The general function of the control system is the ongoing review of operations the whole
organization; it will develop the tools needed to review and measure individuals, organs and
systems. The objective of the measurement is to minimize the loss of resources, i.e. decrease
the entropy, resulting in a more efficient company.

Also develop monitoring processes related to the flow of information, i.e. the links between
different elements of the organization that will allow the construction of an efficient
organization. These processes referred to are simply feedback. The negative has to do with the
decline in entropy and the positive in the correct use of self-generated information. The first
one generates quantitative changes within the organization, the second generates qualitative
changes.

As a result of the measurements it should be possible to make adjustments to the organization,

in some cases those adjustments must be immediate and Top direction may act directly, in
others, the adjustments will be made by the protection system, modifying the structure and
organizational development.

Policies and programs designed from the Strategic Planning developed by the production
system shall be audited by the control system and therefore quality programs and customer
service belong to this department since they are fundamental tools for measuring
organizational performance. It is up to control entity development of these programs.

The monitoring of organizational ethics is another important function of the control system.
The principles and values established in the Strategic Planning are the framework for
organizational development; therefore, this system should ensure its continued compliance.

This system will ensure that the objective of the organization stays healthy, that does not
corrupt, nor deteriorate during the time of existence of the entity.
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The protection system is responsible for maintaining in force and renewed vitality the
organization, as well as providing protection to all of its components and so their basic
functions are the commitment to human resources and innovative maintenance of the Strategic
Planning, it is therefore associated to the human body's immune system.

The system will work primarily in the evolutionary process of the human component of the
corporation leading the process of human management process within the same and its
familiar, social and professional projection. Then, this system must implements projects and
programs to build a vital organization, healthy and constantly growing.

Implementing a human development policy creates a permanent process of transformation

within the company. This system will identify, design and implement structural, organizational
and functional to ensure the continuing vitality of the organization.

The ability to maintain active and productive the organization depends on the ability to keep
alive the vision in a changing environment. This system is responsible for ongoing review of the
pillars of Corporate Strategic Planning and generate processes of change and innovation
required to remain in force and vigorous.

For Organizational Energetics the resource staff are not another resource of the organization,
they are the basic element that constitute it, that´s the reason why it gives vital importance to
its development as an organic entity. The protection system will focus much of their resources
and efforts on the real progress and at all levels of the individuals comprising the organization,
for which a department of human development shall be established that rather than having
control function is an entity for promotion.

The aim is to facilitate individual evolutionary processes within an organization also evolving,
will then ensure a real being, real progress and professional development commensurate to the
qualities and needs of individuals.

Create and carry out programs that promote human development at all levels and involve other
elements constituting the individual´s human tissue such as the family and society.

Strategic planning is the cornerstone for the development and protection of the organization,
so their activity is ongoing and productive. The protection system with its planning department
will monitor the environment in which the organization operates, i.e. the external environment.
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So, the system will be reviewing the market, looking at trends and changes to keep the strategy
and make timely decisions and redirect resources if necessary.

In this sense, strategic planning will anticipate external changes, developing new products and
services tailored to meet future market movements and their customers. Create and prepare
new strategic units, will launch and prepare staff for new developments.

One of its main functions is to prepare the organization to change; the protection system is
responsible for developing the corporate marketing both inside and outside the organization.
New designs, image changes, launch new products and services will be coordinated from this
system.

Where, due to strategic changes, necessary changes in policies, structures and programs, the
protection system will design the transformation process and will monitor their implementation
within the production and control systems taking care to preserve the organizational integrity.
This for it will design and conduct required training and instruct all personnel of the changes to
be carried out, their justifications and the benefits that these changes will provide for the
organizational development.

Positive feedback is what allows giving important qualitative progress within the organization.
The protection system will integrate the experiences gained during the operation that mean
improvements in effectiveness and efficiency of the organization, changing the practices and
functions, designing new measurement systems and controls, generating new areas of
operation or reorganizing the structure so as to promote organizational development.
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The Maps of Organizational Energetics

Map 1. Organizational Development

Vision is defined clearly. From the Vision, they are formulated Mission, values and principles
afterwards designing and building the organizational structure made up of Top Direction and
Production, Control and Protection systems,
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Map 2. Systemic-functional model

In this model we can see the relationship between the various systems that make up the
organization. High or Top Direction provides the synergy that holds, identifies and leads, feeding
functional systems. The production system is responsible for generating value for the resources it
receives and distributes them to the other elements of the organization so they can develop their
functions. The control performs ongoing monitoring of the processes that take place on each of
the systems and the protection system constantly checks the welfare of the organization and its
members, so each system is fed and feeds the other.
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Map 3. Generation of Value

The Organization is itself a generator of value: To its customers as it satisfies their needs, its
owners and investors when there are reports of good levels of profitability, its suppliers in market-
conforming and its members because it is source of welfare and personal development.
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Map 4. Organizational Motivation

The protection system has as main function to ensure the long-term development of the
organization and its objective is to keep motivated the organization and the members that
constitute it. There´s Motivation when the needs are satisfied, i.e. when there is wellbeing, that´s
why this system must promote the general and individual welfare. At the individual level it must
know the needs of the members and promote their development at all levels. Likewise it must
work at the organizational level, i.e. itself. Corporate social responsibility is one way the
organization interacts with the environment in which it operates.
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Map 5. Entropy Reduction

The essential responsibility of the control system is to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of
the organization for it acts as a feedback element to the production system. This is a negative
feedback in the sense that its primary purpose is to keep the organization within the guidelines
established from strategic planning. Entropy is wastage of the system, a total energy loss, the
control function is to keep it minimized, avoiding degradation and eventually paralysis due to the
inability to generate resources to sustain an organization highly expensive.
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Map 6. Products and Essential Systemic Functions

The GTS states that every system has a product to offer to the external system that contains it and
physiology defines the specific function of each organ system that forms the body. Similarly human
organization is composed of systems that generate products with which they interact and develop
roles that are inherent to each system and in which they specialize. All this set of elements,
relations and functions make up the organization.
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Map 7. Organization Living Organism.

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Map 8. Strategic planning and integrated development of the Organization

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VALUE GENERATION

Concept of Value

One of the hottest topics in the science of administration is related to the ability of the
organization to create value and in fact is a matter of vital importance for it.

An organization will be an empty body if it is unable to generate value for and by itself. Value
from the Organizational Energetics point of view represents the creative act that promotes the
organization built from the Humanistic Strategic Planning and supported on a solid and flexible
structure that facilitates internal and external processes with minimal entropy and maximum
synergy.

According to the Spanish language dictionary the term value means a measure of the
importance or usefulness of a being, for one thing, from this concept is possible to reflect on its
scope within the organization.

From a materialistic stance value means price, i.e. how much is a being, thing or idea, but value
is a deeper concept: value comes from the Latin Valor; the root is directly related to terms such
as Valeo and Valentia, synonymous with strength and power.

It is noticed clearly with this etymological meaning that the concept of value is closely linked
with the energy of a being or organization. As discussed in previous chapters organizational
success lies in the power generation capacity and its proper distribution in order to provide
enough resources to each system to function properly.

Force is synonymous with strength and in the human body is represented in a healthy and
vigorous body, as this then allows the development of the individual, but focusing exclusively
and obsessively in keeping the body will generate an imbalance reflected in a lack of creative
action.

In addition, power means having the ability to do something, this capacity involves not only the
physical attributes necessary, including force, but also the intellectual and cognitive. In analogy
to terms of physics, the force in the organization would represent the potential energy, while
the power would be assimilated to kinetics, because it is the potential in action.
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For Organizational Energetics value is related to the Energy generation production and
distribution system, consisting of a solid structure, the strength, which facilitates creative
action, the power. In humans the concept of value is closely linked in their self-creating power
and by the continued promotion of their physical and intellectual development, which affects
the formation of a healthy body, a fundamental requirement to achieve their goals. This implies
an intrinsic value in itself, its ability to lead and develop their own initiatives, which gives it its
value, while there is an extrinsic value represented in the contributions offered to the
environment.

For an organization obviously its value is represented in the material strength primarily in those
individuals, information, knowledge, experience and other elements that strengthen the
synergy, or the permanent and stable capacity for the creation of tangible value, but especially
for intangibles.

The intrinsic value consists of material, intellectual, informatics goods, relationships and
experience the organization possesses and is the representation of the synergy that exists
therein. Within the material goods logically are included the assets and the computing
platforms in use. It is the quality of these platforms and their integration capabilities that
provide greater value to the organization.

There are other issues essential to the consolidation of Corporate Synergy that are not visible or
tangible as the experience of the organization itself and its members, quality and appropriate
use of information generated and clarity of vision represented in a strong leadership is vital and
unifying.

An organization capable of generating a permanent value in itself is highly self-reflexive, with

agile processes, clear, effective and efficient at all levels, both within and towards the external
environment.

The owners envision a company in order to increase revenues through new products and
services or to innovate on existing and obtain or increase a market share. To the extent that
this objective is achieved, the organization acquires more intrinsic value.

The investor is more interested in the profitability of its investment that in the products and
services offered, always looking for that yield obtained from the organization is the most
attractive possible. This aspect shows us another face of value: that is linked to efficiency and
profit generation capacity rather than on resources. The return lists the revenue and expenses,
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a highly expensive operation can minimize the profitability despite the generation of resources
being high.

An organization that cares about its profitability will focus its efforts on a design that allows
management strategies that minimize costs and other expenses and to enable it to increase
revenue. The maximum development potential is in the power of corporate synergy, the ability
to maintain high production capacity of individuals making up the organization and efficiency of
communication channels, ongoing review of processes and performance measurement. That is
the design of effective feedback circuits.

Every organization will have more value to the extent of its generation of profitable revenue
and generates more loyalty from its employees, customers and suppliers. This implies that the
value is not only related to the money factor but also linked with a guarantee of trust, security
and development. Investors also observe these characteristics; an organization providing this
confidence, security, development and profitability will be more attractive to them.

Benefactors are those people more interested in nonprofit organizations or foundations. They
do not seek profit but to support the achievement of other kind of objectives of philanthropic
degree. Organizations looking for benefactors do so in their need of resources for their own
purposes and their structure must have the ability to create value and be attractive to ensure
their survival.

For employees and staff, value has another representation. The organization becomes the
means by which they can meet their needs and is, therefore, agent motivation, development
and growth. Properly managed, these three elements are a major force for progress in
business.

The members of the organization will give more value to the extent that their needs are
supplied by or through it, initially giving security to satisfy the primary requirements, providing
development through training, and gives confidence by recognizing their accomplishments and
merits.

Thus human development is fundamental to the organization for ultimately it succeeds in the
binding, the basis of Corporate Synergy. Commitment and loyalty from employees are the
consequence of an organization that provides security, confidence and development.

For customers the value of an organization is represented in the quality of goods and services
the organization provides, the higher, the greater will be the representative value for customers
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who always expect full satisfaction for the money that the organization asks for products or
services.

The organization is an open system, which depends on the exterior, the customers and
providers, in generating the resources required for operation. To these customers is delivered
in return for the results of management in products and services. An organization becomes
more valuable, represented in loyalty and purchase commitments when their clients get better
solutions to their needs at a fair price. The client looks in the organization security, confidence
and development.

The customer has deposited his needs in the hands of the organization, which in optimum time
will provide with the best way to satisfy them: the higher the satisfaction, the greater the
appreciation received from customers. Appreciation is directly linked to value; we see more of
what is valued most.

For nonprofit organizations, products and services also are directed not to customers but to
beneficiaries who give more appreciation to the entity to the extent that their needs are met in
a more satisfying way. Such organizations must work carefully to design their products and
services, since the type and need of the recipients is complex.

There is another type of beneficiary in the field of commercial organizations, the third, called
the customer's customer who receives the organization through a product or service. In this
case it is essential to sync with the primary client, its policies and programs; here are two types
of needs to fulfill: the customer and the beneficiary. To the extent that this process is optimal,
higher fidelity can be achieved by part of the primary client.

Suppliers or providers are critical in the process of creating value in an organization. They
provide the inputs required to supply the goods and services for the client to satisfy their need.

The supplier also needs security, confidence and development by the organization, also has its
own needs met through it. Providers are actually part of the production system and as such
must be integrated for they have carried out essential functions in the organizational process.

To the extent that the links and relationships between organization and providers are stronger,
the greater the commitment and loyalty; this allows mutual development, stability and security:
the quality and seriousness of the links also stimulate the growth of the parties.
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MOTIVATION IN THE ORGANIZATION

Need and Motivation

It is not the purpose of this book make an exhaustive description of the motivation process in
human organizations, exciting subject and permanent of full investigation. For Organizational
Energetics is one of the basic aspects in the development of its practical applications in
corporations and groups where it carries out its activities.

In the previous section it is concluded that value creation is closely linked to the ability of
Synergy of the organization and directly linked to the system of energy generation and
distribution. Motivation is related with the quality of the system, synonymous of Negentropy or
organizational capability to create and collect information that ultimately gives rise to the
momentous changes and are part of the intrinsic value of the entity.

According to Abraham Maslow, eminent humanistic psychologist and predecessor of the

transpersonal current, motivation is directly related to the ability of individuals and their
environment to satisfy its needs. The reader is invited to read Maslow's book The self-realized
Man where he clearly states his hypothesis, which even today is widely accepted and from
which we take this very interesting presentation which can be seen in Figure 3.

The protection system, from the structure proposed by the Organizational Energy plays a key
role in organizational development and by extension in the support to the evolutionary process
of the members of the same. The protection system, as discussed above, ensures the
development and welfare of the group and its members. This primary function is linked with
the satisfaction of the fundamental needs of the organization, that cell called a human being.
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Self
realization

Ego

Social

Security

Basic physiological

Figure 3. Maslow's Pyramid of needs.

When the organization pays attention to the needs of its members and seeks to facilitate their
development, the individual will gradually move up the pyramid of needs and to the extent of
its solution will advance in his evolution.

The organization as a living system must be attentive to meeting the needs of its members, as
the human body does through the bloodstream, which is the communication medium through
which information flows throughout the body, the correct functioning of every cell is linked to
optimal properly nourished blood irrigation.

The evolutionary process of the human being is directly related with the satisfaction of needs.
The construction of human history has been the steady progress that has sought just
satisfaction. From prehistory there was socialization in order to jointly meet individual needs;
this fact motivated the men to join together to hunt, to protect and shelter. The domestication
of nature created welfare since it was the beginning of the end of nomadic way of living and the
creation of settlements that later became cities was begun, these basic needs were no longer
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pressing, a new relationship with the intellect and communication now arose, promoting
writing.

In the city, which is already a living organization itself, intellectuality and sociability were
developed allowing progress by the creation of new requirements driven by power and
ambition, was born an empire and somehow it strengthened barbarism, after the need there
was now a power of subjugation that marked forever the historical development of mankind.

Beyond addressing the needs there is a use or abuse of power, and the way the organization
uses that power can ensure the motivation of its members. Organizational Energetics promotes
the institutions that allow the development of all individuals who comprise, that group of
individuals is known in management science as the human resource. Actually this group of
people is more than a resource, they constitute the strength and power of the organization
itself, not just another component, but the organization itself and are the whole which holds
the Synergy to carry out the organization and determine its development.

In this sense the Organizational Energetics is innovative because from conception considers the
human being as the core of the organization and the latter is a means to bring him to fulfill his
needs, from basic physiological to those Maslow calls the transcendent or self-actualization.

The fact is that when basic needs are met, the individual will have other higher-order needs to
supply; the organization must provide the means for this to be done. This welfare brings
improvement to employees and their families and by extension the same organization, in a
feedback process.

If the individual clearly perceives his personal, family, social and professional development will
feel safe. And this security and stability which provides the institution with its support and
promotion will result in loyalty and commitment of its partners. The professional development
of its members is essential to strengthen the organization, thereby improving the quality of
knowledge contained within it, and that is part of their intrinsic value.

The intrinsic value is related to the quality of information possessed by the company. In the
General Systems Theory Negentropy is defined as the amount of information available and
generated by the system capable of creating significant change at the same level. Some of this
information is the educational process, Negentropy, which is related to the proactive use of
information that allows taking major steps in its development.
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The satisfaction of individual needs will enable the organization to increase the level of
Negentropy permanently maintained at levels of development despite external circumstances.
The Negentropy is contrary to entropy, not because it minimizes the latter, but rather because
it puts the organization to new levels where entropy won´t arrive soon.

The individual goal is to reach self-actualization, hard road full of needs of all types, whether
the organization achieves its mission and is comprised of such class of individuals it has
succeeded in forming a team with the power to undertake any project successfully, innovative
and generating value for the entity.

Next step will be to build self-realized organizations. That is a long road in both individual and
for the group that requires a high quality leading and strong vision that is based on the
Humanistic Strategic Planning.

In the Organizational Energetics chapter it was described clearly energy flow in the living
organizations. In the same manner, it was detailed the blocks and their consequences for the
final flow. Lack of motivation generates apathy, and then lowers production capacity, lack of
concentration, disorder increase and other dysfunctions that finally represent resources losses
to the organization, that is Entropy.

A block in the Energy flow inside the organizational process means an operational overcost that
usually is not perceived and taken into account in forecast elaboration and nevertheless in
value generation and financial analysis because its difficulty to evaluate it than generate high
cost consequences.

These overcosts not perceived destroy slowly organization productivity and may drive it to
bankruptcy. When entity is able to identify those energy blocks must act immediately in
powering up motivation to promote aligning with organization´s objectives and revitalize the
whole organization process. These are the results of an optimum handling of the generated
internal information or Negentropy.
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PERMANENCE, ENTROPY AND CORRUPTION

Concept of Corruption

One of the most interesting and shocking elements in this investigation came in the beginning
when the topic was the Cell in Organizational Physiology section. In that paragraph was defined
that the cell disease is called Corruption.

Thus the subject acquired greater importance after researching for the etymology of the word,
which comes from the Latin Corrumpo literally break the heart. This resulted in the author's
deep concern about the issue that is being developed in an essay on corruption that will be
published soon.

For the Egyptians of the Old empire Corruption was the decomposition of the body, a fact
which was unacceptable to them, because the dead would be resurrected in body and spirit
after making his trip, this led to the practice of mummification, not exclusive of this culture.

From this standpoint it is easy to understand that corruption is only the degeneration of the
living organism that finally, the advanced state of the same will lead to death. It is a natural
process of degradation.

In the General Systems Theory this process is called entropy, which is a measure of disorder,
the more disorder exists in the system, the greater the entropy and the sooner the degradation,
reaching equilibrium point where the transfer energy is zero. In the Pa-Kua, that point is
equivalent to stillness. In a living organism this point is death.

Increasing Entropy produces difficulty in communication and therefore the flow of information
within the organization, causing serious problems in the generation and distribution of
resources within it, with large operational cost overruns that eventually can cause property
damage and lead to bankruptcy, i.e. death.

Similarly, in the human body lock problems in the blood system will reduce the quality and
quantity of blood to cells, this causes deterioration of the same and so the heart must work
harder each time, until finally is stroked. Romans were right.
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Corruption is linked to the control system, since it is responsible for measuring performance
and taking appropriate measures to maintain optimal levels of production, expenditure and
resource allocation.

The degradation process in living beings is totally natural and is linked with the body's inability
to provide nutrients sufficient to maintain all their cells in top condition, with the deterioration
these begin to malfunction requiring a greater consumption of energy that could be considered
not useful. This is exactly the concept of entropy, or the amount of energy consumed by the
system that is not reflected in their operation, the losses.

When the organism is attacked by a virus, a good amount of energy is required for its defense,
when cells begin to work improperly it is the same, or in cases like cancer, energy is used by the
new cells for the corrupt creation of new tissues in the body, those corrupted cells are simply
stealing energy.

The circulatory system is responsible for providing energy to all cells either with oxygen, fuel of
all the metabolic action, or with the basic required nutrients. When energy demand increases,
the heart is forced to work more intensely and this brings its long-term consequences.

However, when the heart is forced to work harder and the quality of the nutrient is deficient,
the consequence is a general weakening of the body eventually begins to fail, and this process
is known as a disease.

Death in animals and humans occurs when the heart stops, i.e. when it exhausts all its energy,
ceasing to provide to the organism. A heart that has worked forced for a long time will surely
enter into crisis at some point and produce myocardial infarction.

Everything has been a slow process of cellular corruption, which has required more and more
energy to accomplish its task, the system entropy as disorder was present, and grew over time
until the organism get to eat all the energy generated, leaving nothing for the creative
production or movement.

Let's talk about a broken heart, a heart that at some point suffered abuse, disillusionment or
deception, an afflicted heart, its deficiency is going to require greater efforts to supply energy
to the body and therefore depression is a heart disease. A situation of this type to be prolonged
in time will generate chronic energy deficiency; increase the entropy in the body and therefore
its degradation.
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In contrast, when the heart overflows with serenity conducts its work in such a way that
provides the energy required for metabolic activity, and creative movement, the individual is
overflowing with vitality, is creative and joyful, with enthusiasm and motivation. A life with
serenity and a revitalized body.

When the individual manages to overcome the entropy, i.e. its own mess, is capable of curbing
corruption. Taoists believe in the immortality of the body with the correct use of energy, and
may not be far from that reality, the difficulty is to understand quickly this internal
disorganization and overcome it.
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Corruption in the Organization

Throughout the development of this book it has been defined the organization as a living and
evolving living being that works in a similar way as do the unique individuals that form it. So
how to address the issue of corruption by using this analogy? There are two terms that can
address the issue: entropy and degradation.

As the organization´s size increases the risk of increasing the level of entropy becomes real,
since there appear difficulties among the communication channels and in some cases these
channels disappear entirely. Since each system has its own communication channels, due to
this growth, the organization's three systems suffer its consequences: the generation and
distribution system will have difficulty to perform its primary function of providing resources,
the control will be constrained in its ability to perform its function, the same happen to the
protection system.

As a result of this the organization will be weakened in every aspect and will begin to lose its
ability to generate value, a process of organizational degradation starts which in turn will cause
an increase in disorder, which is only Entropy.

It's a vicious cycle that can be highly costly to the organization if it does not perceive it in time.
The organization is a rational living being and therefore has the ability to reshape and revitalize,
this is the process of organizational transformation that few corporations have undertaken with
responsibility for building new structures on top of those which lay almost dead, others have
failed in the attempt; others have not even tried and disappear.

The viruses in living organisms, like the diseases, cause degradation of the body and gradually
put it in danger. The viruses in the organization act similarly, currently belong to it but are not
aligned with its principles, its goals, they act against it, just like cancer cells, stealing the
resources, energy, and that is a common type of corruption and degradation.

Human organizations are considered as open systems for the General Theory of Systems, as
they depend for on the outside for their survival, it is from the outside they take their resources
and abroad deliver their products and services, which themselves are resources for other
organizations. This way is formed an interdependence, which is nothing more than an even
larger system that contains every other, so that is why it is passed from individual to group,
hence the organization, to society and humanity.
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It is clear that this is a monumental problem, the level of entropy of a society, or society, and
beyond, of humanity, is too high, so high as to say "there is nothing to do." But the opposite is
true, human evolution is the history of development of consciousness, the individual who
becomes aware will be incorruptible and if every day we build organizations that are aware,
they will be incorruptible and gradually achieve the whole humanity free from corruption. This
is the actual purpose of Organizational Energetics.
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APPLICATION AREAS OF ORGANIZATIONAL ENERGETICS

A Comprehensive Vision of the Organization

This study called Organizational Energetics offers a comprehensive view of the organization in a
way that has not been addressed previously. While there are similar approaches such as
systemic administration or some applications of organizational psychology. Similarly the
concepts of General Theory of Systems are not yet widely understood in the field of social
sciences. Even further away are the analysis from human physiology and Eastern bioenergetics.
It was the latter that actually motivated this work, because their perspective provides a better
understanding of the whole human being like nowhere else in the world.

Western science tends to the disintegration of the object of study, detailed analysis of its
components and then rebuilds it in a synthesis process that often fails its mission. In the East
the object of study is seen as a whole and as such is understood, by analyzing the behavior, and
its overall functioning and performance. These are two radically different visions.

The proposal of Organizational Energetics is to understand and comprehend the organization as

a whole, thus following the eastern optics. In addition accepting the concept that it is a living
rational being allows applying the concepts of energy and its flow in the same Eastern way.

Nonetheless the West poses the careful analysis of the human being carried out by the
physiology, because from it the stand alone component that makes up the organization was
reached: that human being. This study from physiology allows insights so far not taken into
account in organizational processes and which will lead to transcendental improvements of
such and of organization in general.

But the rationalization of certain organizational concepts provided by the General Systems
Theory opens important areas of organizational research to develop tools to measure different
parameters of these complex systems.

For all the above the Organizational Energetics has a wide application in all types of human
organization from the simplest form that can be the partner to the most complex, no doubt,
humanity.
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The development of the Humanistic Strategic Planning pursuits to create organizations aware of
their importance in the process of evolution of mankind, i.e. of the same humanity. In other
words planning proposed here aims to humanize the organization.

That said it is easy to conclude that the Organizational Energetics has a long way to go through
the world of educational research, humanization of institutions and commercial organizations,
those of the state, of health and a wide application in the development of unprotected
communities that require empowerment to leave their state of underdevelopment and
prostration without forgetting the potential for consolidation of the couple and the family as
the nucleus of society.

In the following sections the implementation of the Organizational Energetics in education and
business organizations will be discussed, sectors where it has taken its first steps in Colombia,
however not the only ones, because human organization is to unite two people anywhere with
a common goal.

The transformation process set forth in the Organizational Power is clearly reflexive, requiring
an overhaul of the organization itself and by extension every member that form it, this fact
makes it clearly a therapeutic process, which is healer. The human being needs to be healed,
while this does not happen unhealthy organizations will continue to be built, that will generate
more dissatisfaction, pain, bitterness and resentment.
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Organizational Energetics and the Educational System

Currently a Humanistic Strategic Planning process is conducting within a research group

affiliated to the school of arts of the Education faculty at a major university in Colombia. It was
begun at the request of the director of the group concerned about the low productivity of the
group that can cause a downgrade assigned by Colciencias and therefore the loss of resources
and recognition.

One of the first concerns with the group was to determine the degree of cohesion of the same,
i.e. Synergy. The response received was the expected: the group is discouraged, the members
do not feel part of it and they generally considered lack of leadership. These were clear signs
that the group as an organization was not working properly.

Speaking of Strategic Planning and its elements was something that surprised the group,
considering that they are academics with degrees in education and not in administrative
sciences. Likewise, the author, who acted as facilitator, was surprised at the ignorance of the
strategic process, since pedagogy builds the new society by working with its seeds. The
development of this work prompted further on the subject of university research in Colombia
and Latin America.

University research in Latin America is limited and poor, with the exception of Brazil where
there is an excellent University-Industry interaction; in other countries the results are limited. In
fact it is something relatively new in the case of Colombia, one of the pioneers in the Hispanic-
speaking America that fostered university research, takes place in 1990 with financial support
to Colciencias, governing body of research in the country. Countries with highest development
like Chile are just beginning to organize entities like this.

Reviewing documentation through the Internet is easy to see that university research in Latin
America does not produce results, this means that it is unable to create value and already has
been discussed that if an organization does not create value is unable to provide the resources
required even for its operation.

This symptom shows clearly the lack of Strategic Planning at the university research groups,
thereby preventing the development as they should be, i.e. the engine of change in the same
university, because for it is one of the basic pillars, which are Research, Teaching and
Projection.
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It can be considered that research constitutes the system of protection of the university in
terms of Organizational Energetics, because, well directed, will give the University new
programs, procedures, in other words will allow growth in terms of knowledge as well as
providing screening in their areas of influence. In other words feeds the two systems and
guarantees its survival.

How can the Organizational Energetics enrich the research process in college? At first glance,
the implementation of the Humanistic Strategic Planning in the research group would be the
ideal solution. However, this is a reflective process that requires the entire organization and in
this case it is the University, since the research group is only an organ of the same and depends
on it, in terms of resources, practically entirely. In addition, any planning process should be
aligned with the University to avoid conflicts within the organization that may become serious.

Organizational Energetics can become a transforming element of the university by fostering a

deep understanding of it and its role in society, i.e. the planning process must come from the
general direction of the University. The lack of planning in the research groups is a failure in the
same at organizational level or at least shows difficulties in inter-institutional communication.

The importance of the implementation of a serious process of Humanistic Strategic Planning at

the University would generate a true revolution in the educational system that would grow with
the snowball effect. The process should begin at general management level, continuing with
teachers and administrative staff. The teachers would begin to implement it in their classes
getting the information to the student not as a subject of study but rather as everyday practice.
These students, soon to be entrepreneurial workforce would take the same kind of practice and
awareness to their companies and other organizations in which they develop, creating new
transformation processes. The university, from this aspect would have a highly multiplying
effect.

In the specific case of the faculties of Pedagogy the multiplier effect is even greater, there are
trained professionals to teach in primary schools and secondary schools, will work with
children, to whom they will begin to teach from an early age that social and individual
consciousness. Or will direct such institutions producing similar effects on the student
population. When these young people come to college with the same philosophy, will be able
to develop their full potential. A true social transformation.

Now, in the case of university research, the effects would be similar, the teachers would
preside over highly motivated research projects, creating better products and proposals, i.e.
higher value for the group and the university itself, which would result in both organizational
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development of one or the other. This would increase the quality of research attracting
investment and state enterprises in such projects generating more resources and greater
recognition of both the organization and to researchers in other words satisfaction of the needs
of the fourth and fifth level of the Maslow pyramid.

For young researchers, working in a group with these characteristics will strengthen their
empowerment, their ability and tenacity to plunge into work on developing better tools to be
implemented in organizations with which they are linked.

In conclusion, Organizational Energetics in the University has a great potential for development
to become an agent of social change of vital importance for humanity.
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Organizational Energetics in Commercial Corporations

The most important scope of the Organizational Energetics is undoubtedly in the commercial
and service companies. In fact the first practices have been in business organizations of various
kinds.

Preliminary information has allowed seeing that Colombian small and medium enterprises
completely lack strategic planning besides having poor control and protection systems. They
are focused primarily on the production system neglecting, almost from birth, management,
quality and human development.

This type of organization is doomed by several factors that appear as they grow due to
increasing entropy, synonymous with disorder. The less control and greater size will increase
the waste generated by the disorder, the costs will increase as other vices which are harmful to
the organization by making it increasingly inefficient and unproductive.

The lack of serious and conscious policies of human development create serious organizational
problems, especially the individual's demotivation because of their inability to meet their needs
of all types, slowing their personal development that eventually will drag down the
organization. The lack of motivation involves the development of behaviors that can undermine
the entire enterprise. This inability of the corporation results in labor desertion which means
increased costs and loss of information.

In previous sections we saw that the Negentropy is that feature of the system to use acquired
information and that its increase is capable of generating breakthroughs in organizational
development and a significant decrease in entropy. Dropping out slows this possibility and
increases the organizational wear significantly

The biggest risk that this type of organization has is the high corruption in the external
environment, i.e. systems with which the company interacts. The weaknesses of the control
system allow foreign corruption within the organization causing a true bleeding of resources,
this can happen more easily due to lack of motivation. Corruption within the organization acts
as a cancer that takes away more and more resources to the organism.

Another weakness observed in these companies is the lack of solid organizational structure.
Usually the owner is the general manager and control entity, unable to delegate, he or she is
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the center of all activity carried out by the organization. Technically it's the heart, a heavy heart
has a high risk of heart attack that in the most cases means death of the organism, in this case
the organization.

From the vision of Organizational Energetics three systems are equally important in the
development of the company, if one is bigger equals in hypertrophy therefore involves a
malfunction of the organization.

Finally, the lack of strategic planning is the biggest weakness that this type of organization has.
Without it is impossible to anticipate changes in the external environment, understand the
strengths and weaknesses for carrying out new projects and is unable to generate any real
inner transformation processes.

The field is ready for Organizational Energetics. However there is an obstacle, often
insurmountable, we can say that is the resistance to change but is actually a failure of the top
direction to review, reflect, and great lack of courage to undertake a process of transformation.
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Organizational Energetics and personal development

Organizational Energetics can be a valuable tool for individual development by providing a

complete and comprehensive vision of human organization. An understanding of this type
combined with an intense self-reflexive work will lead to a major expansion of consciousness
and thus facilitate in the same proportion to the evolution of the individual.

Understanding the human system named the organization will allow the individual to know him
better and understand himself as part of a larger organization called humanity, ceasing to be a
passive entity to become the architect of his own destiny.

A human being without vision is unable to carry out his mission by becoming a simple survivor,
subject to permanent changes in the environment, unable to handle his own life and at best a
beautiful body subject to the dominant current consumerism.

The experiment carried out in enterprises in Colombia has allowed several people involved in
the processes to take important decisions in their lives, such as leaving those companies to
realize that they could not develop fully in them or that the work environment occupied other
areas of their life that finally had greater importance.

Organizational Energetics reaches the cell of the organization, initiating the transformation
process from it, because it is from there where the change in companies, institutions and all
types of organizations occur. It is a slow process but highly productive for each and every one of
the individuals involved.

Only human beings empowered with themselves, aware of their internal processes and
external stakeholders will be responsible for human organizations that can be transformed to
build a fair, just reality, with opportunity for all with respect for all life, because as systems they
interact and depend on each other.
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FORECLOSURE

Final Dissertation

This essay offers much more of a complete view of human organization whose fundamental
aim is to promote the evolutionary process of man himself, who joins others in the ongoing
quest to meet their needs, ranging from primary key, ensuring the life, to upper that directly
involve his self-realization.

Undeniably there is a current crisis at all levels, are growing the imbalances and inequities and
the indifference of most of the world population remains increasingly visible. There is a general
hopelessness and a lack of motivation towards life is ever growing.

Conscious organizations, a term used frequently in this text, are the reiterative goal. The
Organization is a being with life, thinking, feeling, suffering, rejoicing, not of metal structures,
on the contrary are malleable, they grow and shrink according to needs, and all of them shaped
by human beings, who are those who think, feel, suffer and enjoy.

One of the clear messages of this paper is that the organization was born of necessity, the
needs of several or many beings and lack of awareness of these entities would make it appear
that they only want to take advantage of these needs, play and trade with them.

Levels of Entropy in today's society are becoming unmanageable and the main symptom is
corruption visible in all nations, groups and organizations. And society does not seem to
understand that this degradation is only accomplishing its own destruction. The disease of the
organism is cellular, it is they, the cells who age and die, slowly bringing the entire body to his
death.

The strengthening of the organization lies in the empowerment of its members, there is no
other way for the first one than to look inward, to itself, realizing that it is the members that
constitute it. It is a challenge and a paradigm shift. The organization is an energy machine
whose sole function is to provide energy to its components. It is not difficult to understand, but
to accept is and much.
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There are mechanisms to carry out this process of transformation of those living things that
may otherwise be considered the next step in man's evolutionary process, just as thousands of
millions of years did the first cell on the face of the earth and slowly joined to another, or
whether it was divided, forming the first multicellular being, generating plants, animals and
humans, these humans today are joined together in communities, cities, clusters, all types of
organizations, don’t they appear to be new living organisms?

The evolution may be at risk, but only humans have the ability to avert disaster because of their
ability to make use of acquired knowledge, Negentropy increase is only one capacity of the
human race and its organizations. Negentropy is what allows these so-called quantum jumps,
those jumps that allow us to look back and realize how much we have progressed in our
evolutionary process.

Taoist traditions speak of the immortal men who dominate the Energy and managed to
overcome death, which is nothing more than the maximum level of entropy that can support a
system or organization. Only through the complete mastery of the energy are the quantum
jumps possible, thus granting accesses to new and higher levels of evolution.

It is possible Lao Tzu was right and then humanity is on the threshold of a huge transformation
process. And if so, this text is perhaps to be called the Tao of the Organization.

Ernesto Molano Devia

Bogota, Colombia, May 2006