ABSTRACT

The integrated macroscopic emergence of organizational behavioral traits is what can be understood as organizational culture, which over time develops certain decision-making processes, organizational values, and implicit assumptions. The Lean Brain theory proposes an embodied organizational design that is de facto a new developmental stage in the evolution of organizations in which both structure and function are both evolvable and flexible toward a more integrated organizational cognitive process. The key is to start by observing such structure–function relationship in complex systems and what the Lean complex networked paradigm can contribute to a better understanding of the process of organizational cognition. The quantitative approach toward organizational functional dynamics can help visualize the free energy of the organizational macro structural network communities. Individuals in organizations develop a set of behavioral strategies that enable an internal integrative organizational effort of alignment toward the successful collective solving of external challenges.