capability ecologist
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A biologist is someone who looks at life and individual living organisms, their structure, growth, origin and evolution. An ecologist looks at the relationship between these individual living things, understanding how they inter-relate in a whole ecology.
We often look at building capabilities in an individual way, in terms of individual knowledge, learning and abilities. But our organisations are systems - social ecologies, with collective knowledge, wisdom and capabilities.
A Capability Ecologist is someone who looks not only at individual learning, but also the environments that enable collective learning. By managing the inter-relationship of these abilities we build organisational capabilities that are more than just the sum of the parts alone.
We talk about learning organisations, and it is a Capability Ecologist who understands how an 'organisation' learns, consciously creating learning environments to enable new capabilities through the natural development of the people within.
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capability ecologist