The Catalyst Perspectives Group
When cells replicate or reproduction occurs, DNA containing genes are passed along in the form of chromosomes. These genes ensure that the replicated cells or offspring will have parental form and function. The ability of living things to produce new individuals with both identical and different combinations of DNA is the single most important factor for empowering the process of evolution.
The identical replication produces more of the same suite of form and function that is already working in that place and time. The processes that allow for different combinations of DNA for form and function in the next generation, opens the door to the opportunity for the offspring to be more fit than the parent generation. Do your organizational plans and management processes provide the guidance needed to produce consistent results while enabling your organization to pursue new opportunities in different settings?
The essays in this section will consider:
A: Provides instructions for making proteins and directs the development of the form and expression of the functions for a living thing.
Q: What do genes do?
The instructions encoded in the genes of an organism are so critical that nearly every cell in that organism possess identical copies of those genes. Although almost all the cells in an organism contain the exact same DNA, gene regulation is how each cell controls which genes, out of the many genes in its genome, are expressed. Through gene regulation, each cell type has a different set of active genes. These different patterns of gene expression cause cells of different types to have different sets of proteins, making each cell type uniquely specialized to do its job.
To guide its employees in an integrated and systematic manner, an organization must have the documentary and procedural equivalent of the instructions that are contained in an organism's genome. These instructions can be described as the organization's DNA and represent the fundamental essence of what makes the organization's form and function uniquely adapted to its setting.
Does your organization have comprehensive and detailed plans that guide organizational-development and manages operational activities?
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A: The cell replication process that results in two daughter cells with the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent cell, as in the production of cells that form the body of a living thing.
Q: What is Mitosis?
Mitosis occurs in all eukaryotic cells and is the process for cell growth and renewal. Because the genes that are passed to the daughter cells are identical to those in the parent cell, the new cells have identical form and function.
An organization with clearly defined organizational-DNA that provides comprehensive instructions for its operations can ensure consistent performance through systematic sharing of this essential organizational information asset.
Does your organization have consistently high performance because of well ingrained and widely shared best practices and standard work?
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A: Sexual reproduction or conjugation.
Q: What do birds, bees, educated fleas or bacteria do?
Living things share their DNA through two processes: conjugation (bacteria) and sexual reproduction (eukaryotes). This sharing produces greater genetic variation in the resulting offspring (than through mitotic replication) which allows for more diverse adaptations in response to selective pressures. Sexual reproduction is obviously advantageous because, over 99.99% of all eukaryotic species are capable of reproducing sexually.
In a similar manner, organizations can benefit from sharing their organizational-DNA to expand and enhance their ability to adapt to the selective forces of organizational evolution.
Has your organization "taken the plunge" and created conditions for mutually beneficial sharing of your operational expertise with another organization?
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A: A Zonkey, Mule, Liger and Zorse.
Q: What are four examples of an interspecific hybrid?
Throughout biological evolutionary time, picking the right partner for sexual reproduction has been such an important process that a variety of prezygotic (before-fertilization) and postzygotic (after-fertilization) barriers to prevent inter-specific hybrids has arisen.
However, organizational evolution may impart sufficiently different selective pressures that "interspecific" organizational junctions may actually provide for distinct selective advantages.
Does your organization pick partners to share organizational DNA in a way that offers unique operational and performance advantages?
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