The evolutionary fitness of any organization or network
is proportionate with its capability to excel in the 8 areas of practice
for enhancing community intelligence.

The practices and capabilities that determine our evolutionary fitness as individuals and communities, are in a dynamic process of co-evolution with each other. The better that you become in any one of them, the better you'll be in others, especially the ones closest to the practice area that you've just augmented.

To survive and thrive, everybody has to demonstrate capabilities in each of the 8 disciplines, but the emphasis will be different in different organizations, even in the different life-cycles of the same organization. One of the most intelligent questions that you-- as a person, organization, or network-- can ask yourself is:

Which of the the 8 areas you need to augment first in order to generate the most powerful ripple effects on the rest of your capability repertoire?

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The Wheel of Evolutionary Fitness is also a vehicle for a learning expedition of colleagues dedicated to increase the change capacity of themselves and their organizations. It is a conceptual framework that will become more useful as each of the 8 directions will be completed by indicators that identify specific levels of competence in each practice field, so that the players can gauge their evolution against some targets.

If you have a suggestion for an indicator in one or more fields of Evolutionary Fitness practices, please share it.

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This Wheel was inspired by the Earth wisdom taught by Ehama Institute .