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Individual emerges from relationship
We see the world from the perspective of our own identities which occur for us as individual, unique and separate and see that separation everywhere. We see ourselves as individual first and part of a group, community or organization second. It's the view of an individual. What if it is the other way around? What if we are deeply related and then become individuals distinguished from others? What is if the differences, boundaries and separations are created after and we start from a being of deep relationship? Our corporations reflect the fundamental error in thinking which sees individuals, specialities and departments as separate. From that perspective, we might see the possibilities of sharing, of co-operating, of synergy but the possibility of the value of these has to be proved. We look from at the surface condition from this individuated and separate perspective and do not see the profound potential of our deep relationship. Whatif we see that we are part of a whole first and separated into specialities only later for specific, focused development - but that separated development is of greatest value when integrated back into the whole? Consider that there is no place for computer specialists, for a human resource department, for research or engineering, for IT specialists, for production lines or marketing except in the context of the whole. These on their own are largely useless.
It is trivial to agree and then to consider that they are just parts that somehow need each other. The meaning of each is given by their relationship to each other and the whole. For an organization of specialists to realise their potential, they need to see that it is the combinations that are possible at deep levels of relationship that provide the unique and productive advantage that is possible in a corporation. IT will be powerful when it begins from a deep relationship to the whole business and then develops with other specialities the potential for its contribution. This is also true of HR, accounting, research and strategy. Beginning from separateness we trivialise individual difference and specialisation because we remove it from the context that gives it meaning and provides the possibility of realising the contribution that wants to be made. Beginning from deep relationship, we do not trivialise difference but provide the basis for its unique development and application.
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