Book 8: Regeneration and Sustainability
23 frameworks derived from this book's biological principles
4-Week Sprint to Circular Systems
A practical 4-week playbook for beginning circular economy transformation. Provides structured process with concrete deliverables to map resource flow...
90-Day Biodiversity Sprint
A tactical 90-day execution plan that translates The Biodiversity Portfolio Audit into week-by-week actions. The sprint produces a Portfolio Health Sc...
Circular Resource Systems
A comprehensive framework for designing circular systems based on biological nutrient cycling principles. Guides organizations through mapping resourc...
Compatibility Screen
A filtering framework for identifying potential partners based on structural rather than cultural fit. Mutualism isn't about finding partners you trus...
Competitive Balance Framework
A diagnostic and strategic framework for assessing competitive intensity and positioning within predator-prey market dynamics. The framework helps org...
Defection Tax Framework
Mechanisms that make one-sided value extraction so costly it becomes irrational. Biology doesn't prevent cheating through contracts - it makes cheatin...
Ecological Succession Framework
A comprehensive framework for understanding and managing organizational evolution through predictable successional stages. Organizations progress from...
Isle Royale Principle
Sustainable competitive dynamics emerge not through permanent dominance but through oscillating balance where competitors regulate each other. Neither...
Keystone Analysis Framework
A systematic method for identifying and protecting the critical dependencies that structure your organization. Unlike traditional risk management (whi...
Keystone Index
A conceptual formula for measuring the disproportionate impact of a species or organizational component relative to its abundance or resource allocati...
Keystone Severity Formula
When sea otters vanished from Pacific kelp forests, ecologists could find substitutes for their role as urchin predators—sunflower sea stars kept urch...
Long-Cycle Preparedness Framework
A six-step framework for preparing organizations to survive cycles that exceed planning horizons, management tenure, or organizational lifespans. Base...
Mutualism Design Checklist
A 22-item checklist for evaluating potential partnerships and assessing existing mutualistic relationships across four categories: Partnership Recogni...
Mutualism Design System
A comprehensive framework synthesizing biological principles and organizational practice into actionable principles for architecting partnerships wher...
Partnership Health Diagnostic
A 100-point scorecard for assessing the health of existing mutualistic partnerships across four categories: Partnership Foundation (structural fit), S...
Shared Fate Architecture
Partnership structures where interests align so completely that exploitation becomes self-defeating. The best partnerships don't require trust - they...
Successional Stage Diagnostic
A quantitative and qualitative diagnostic tool for determining an organization's current successional stage. Uses metrics like annual revenue, growth...
The Biodiversity Portfolio Audit
A systematic six-step framework for diagnosing portfolio fragility, designing stabilizing diversity, and implementing portfolio resilience through org...
The Natural Model Translator
A synthesis table showing how biological mutualism mechanisms translate to organizational practice across four levels: Molecular, Behavioral, Ecosyste...
The Nurse Log Principle
Sustainable systems design death into life, transforming waste into wealth, and closing loops so outputs become inputs. When nutrients or resources fl...
The Reliability Paradox Matrix
A 2×2 matrix with Visibility (how much attention it receives) on one axis and Impact (consequence if lost) on the other. The danger zone is the upper-...
The Yellowstone Protocol
A systematic framework for deliberate organizational decomposition - extracting value from failed projects, obsolete products, and declining businesse...
Transition Triggers Diagnostic
A diagnostic tool for identifying when an organization needs to initiate a stage transition. Uses a '3 of 5' threshold rule - if you answer 'yes' to a...