Why Does a Sense of Belonging Matter More Than Ever? 2040's Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 85

Belonging Matters

Issue 85, December 8, 2022

According to the British Columbian First Nation Haida, if you have forgotten or lost your language and your stories you are among the walking dead. (And there are only 24 people left in that nation that speak their endangered language.) The same could be said about evolving an organization’s purpose, using the past to help redefine the future, moving toward a shared purpose and always staying true to an organization’s North Star. A last word about the Haida worldview: their ethics and values are fundamental to its culture and society – respect, responsibility, interconnectedness, balance, seeking wise counsel, and giving and receiving. Full disclosure, we see many parallels between the Haida philosophy and healthy organizational constructs.

Poetic?  We don’t think so.  As it turns out, belonging (not bei…