Life Sustaining Organizations: A Design Guide
Anika Savage and Michael Sales founded Art of the Future five years ago to support organizational vitality.  Too many organizations are gray and boring; too few feel an intimate connection to the natural environment.  Art of the Future is dedicated to vibrant organizations that celebrate their people and seek harmony with nature.   Anika is an architect, corporate strategist and consultant with wide-ranging experience in technology, telecommunications and finance.  She has served as a corporate architect and corporate strategist at Digital Equipment Corporation, Director of Real Estate Strategy for FleetBoston Financial and systems thinking and scenario planning consultant for AT&T;'s investigation of the impact of technology on the work environment.  Michael is a leadership trainer and strategy consultant who has worked across a wide variety of economic sectors with organizations such as Rohm and Haas, Partners Health Care, the U.S. Department of State, the Seagram Company, the International Association for Product Development, M.I.T., Mercer, Microsoft, the City of Newton MA, and the Northern Forest Dialog Project.  Anika holds degrees in architecture from Pratt Institute and the University of California at Berkeley, with advanced studies at the University of Florence and has an MBA from Babson College.  Michael received his doctorate in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University.  He has a Masters in Broadcast Communication Arts from California State College at San Francisco and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School.  Michael and Anika have published numerous articles on organizational dynamics and workplace strategy.  Life Sustaining Organizations represents the culmination of their individual and joint study of organizations over the course of thirty years.  It provides step-by-step guidance in the use of Structural Dynamics by Anticipatory Leaders.  Structural Dynamics is a rigorous process that integrates systems thinking and scenario planning to discover and act upon robust strategies that empower organizations to shape their future confidence.  Anticipatory Leadership is a set of competencies needed to create an environment in which everyone in the workforce can function creatively and productively, even in the face of disruptive, turbulent conditions.