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SYNAPSE - 2014 SYNAPSE - 2014 As an organism, every leader will have to encourage the other to be a leader, evoke the potential and help deal with context in order to deliver “Purush”, an outpouring of imagination, an organism. Jain chronicles view the world is seen as being constantly volatile, a slithering serpent & never stable. Our mind likewise wavers from the optimistic to pessimistic gaze or upward boom to bust. Thus to be nimble, organizations need to be like an organism. An organization is insensitive to and an organism is intuitive to the world around it. The organization is a set of rules that people follow, while the organism is a set of people who follow rules. Organizations work well with single markets, while organisms when dealing with multiple markets. We see good time in one market and bad in another, so a single or global strategy may not always work. Local strategy will gain further prominence. Matrix structures will rule as they look into the problems within the context of the local or community. Thus consensus will not be the criteria but trust and understanding! cancer and destruction, while suboptimal growth results in death or degeneration. Organizations are goal-based, with a view, I look at the market and they look at me, further we all look at the market. Organisms are more gaze-based. I look at them and they look at the market, which makes it a continuous and ongoing process. HR will thus emulate this idea and support the organization to transform into an organism as a part of its strategy with courage and responsibility! REFERENCES:  Pattanaik Devdutt. (2013). Business Sutra: A Very Indian Approach to Management. Aleph Book Company  To transform from an organization to an organism, people need to understand both the universal and particular (big picture & individual roles). Leaders would be dispersed so taking common views of the marketplace a consensus will be reached. Teamwork and collaboration will largely wipe out hierarchy & autocracy. Gartside David, Sloman Colin, Simmons Janice and Cantrell M. Susan. (2013). Trends Reshaping the Future of HR. Talent Management Meets the Science of Human Behavior. Accenture Institute for High Performance.  A hierarchy is survival of the fittest, but as an organism, every leader will have to encourage the other to be a leader, evoke the potential and help deal with context in order to deliver. This cascade will create an organism. The Promise of Future Leadership: A Research Program on Highly Talented Employees in the Pipeline. (2007-2010). Catalyst. Retrived from http:// www.catalyst.org/media/paying-itforward-pays-back-business-leaders IMAGES: “Working through a scenario and developing a plan of attack is the only way organizations survive in the uncertain world we live [