pull is balanced by the discontinuous push producing an integrity of both tension and compression. Within ORTEGRITY, the continuous pull is DECISION balanced by the discontinuous push of ACTION. ORTEGRITY (Organizational Tensegrity) creates DECISION-ACTION tensegrities that utilize:

• decision heterarchy with synergic consenus and veto,
• action hierarchy with synergic negotiation.

ORTEGRITY produces win-win relationships between all individuals within the organization. This results in a conflict free environment which optimizes the two processes of human behavior — decision and action. The resultant is an enormous increase in efficiency, productivity, and quality of work-life. DECISIONS are made in heterarchy — on a single level — a circle of equality. Each member’s role is the same. The goal is to find the plan of accomplishing the assigned task with best effect on all. A win-win solution. This search leads to the most efficient way of doing things. All members are protected from any loss by their veto. Only a win-win plan can be approved. Such plans that will be strongly supported by all members. Humans develop strong feelings of community in heterarchy. It strengthens their commitment to the organization. Individuals are more creative and enthusiastic in a setting where they feel respected and needed. Every member has a veto and is expected to use it to prevent losses. This is synergic consensus. It is a powerful system for producing unanimous decision. Remember loss can still occur in synergic organization. But if loss must occur it is minimized and then shared equally by all members of the heterarchy. ACTIONS are carried our in hierarchy—on different levels—a ladder of differing authority and responsibility. The ACTION team is formed on a negotiated basis. The individuals within the heterarchy divide labor and form a hierarchy by consensus. The role of each member is agreed to through open negotiation.

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Describe the critical need your solution addresses.

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The principles of ORTEGRITY were initially innovated in 1983 by myself and another synergic scientist N. Arthur Coulter, Jr., MD. He was the author of HUMAN SYNERGETICS. We were seeking to design a “conflict-free” organizational system for humankind. As synergic scientists, we both believed an ideal system would be based on win-win relationships.

As our discussions began, I felt sure the system would be a form of capitalism. I had studied theoretical capitalism for a number of years. I envisioned the ideal system would be a form of Synergic Capitalism — win-win capitalism.

As a synergy scientist, Coulter was sensitive to the wholistic view — a view he associated with theoretical socialism. He felt the needs of the species were more important than the needs of the individual. As the Star Trek character Spock said, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.”

Coulter assumed all capitalistic structures had to be based on win/lose dynamics, and therefore he was opposed to them on principle. Coulter envisioned a form of Synergic Socialism — win-win socialism.

Coulter and I both agreed that what was really important was to create a system that produced only win-win relationships. If we succeeded at that, then whether it was “capitalistic” or “socialistic” might not really matter. At this point, we agreed to change our focus to “hierarchy” and “heterarchy”. We began seeking a unique system that would transcend both capitalism and socialism — perhaps we could call it simply synergism.

Over the next 25 years, our system has been refined, improved and finalized.

ORTEGRITY is now ready for utilization within real organizations. During the next three years, I envision a full system test with two to four organizations.

With the BFI Challenge Prize moneys, I could afford to fund a small team to provide full-time support for such a test program.

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Explain your initiative in more depth and its stage of development.

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Comprehensive — Creating conflict free organizations will move humankind towards a conflict free world.

Anticipatory — On a finite planet, ORTEGRITY’s elimination of all conflict optimizes human performance, and maximizes efficiency, productivity and quality of work-life.

Ecologically responsible — With ORTEGRITY, you win, I win, community wins, Life wins, and the Earth wins.

Feasible — ORTEGRITY requires no new technologies or resources. All we have to do is change our minds.

Verifiable — Life is over 3.5 billion years old. ORTEGRITY is the pattern of life. The internal structure of our human bodies are ORTEGRITYS. The forty trillion cells in our bodies live in win-win, synergic harmony.

Replicable — Using ORTEGRITY all ~7 billion humans could be organized into a single system. No known system of organization is more flexible and adaptive then Living systems. There can be any number of levels, and any number of branches on each level. Using ORTEGRITY, you can organize 2 individuals or 20 billion humans.

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How does your strategy and approach respond creatively and comprehensively to key issues?

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In 1972, I committed myself to finding the necessary knowledge to help change our world. By 1974, I was devoting nearly all of my free time searching for a better world. The more I searched the clearer it became that the positive future I desired would require that we humans give up violence – that we humans eliminate adversary behavior.

As I studied human behavior, I began to see violence as a disease. And one that clearly caused as much pain and suffering as any other disease that had ever plagued humankind. As a physician and scientist, I knew that when you truly understood a phenomena you could learn to control it.

Today, thirty-six years later, I bring good news. The understanding necessary for humankind to solve all of its problems exists today – right now in 2008.

We humans can solve our problems. But we will have to use all the 'knowing' that our power of time-binding can produce. Future Positive and the SynEARTH.network websites will present everything that I and other synergic scientists have learned – all the 'knowing' necessary to understand our human crisis and to control it. All that is necessary for the creation of a 'positive' future – for the creation of a safe earth.

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