The 21st Century Organization is a complex hybrid (human and non-human) organism that enacts multiple hybrid objects through five generative processes, striving toward synergy as the organism advances into the near adjacent future through the multiple teleological streams of their tensegral relationships.

The ability to align a particular process with the fundamental processes of the biosphere, and to synchronize with their unique teleological imperatives, is key to creating a self-sustaining, ever-advancing, boundlessly innovative enterprise.

The first statement describes a transformational view of organizations, and the second prescribes the role of the transformational leader. The idea is that the situation we are facing is always already here, just as for Ptolemy, the planets always already revolved around the sun—he just couldn’t see it. So, too, for the 21st century leader, the change is always already happening, and the optimum configuration is always already available—we just can’t see it. But by re-framing each of the organization’s problematic situations in terms of each of the G5, we can begin to build a platform in which the multiple teleological streams that are compelling the situation will reveal their relevant features and key aspects. If, through a set of rigorous rules, we can define these features and aspects as multiple objects, we can make them accessible to inquiry. If in turn we can make these objects specifiable, then we can make them assessable and we can begin to work with them in more conventional ways.

"Metacognition" is often simply defined as "thinking about thinking." In actuality, defining metacognition is not that simple. Although the term has been part of the vocabulary of educational psychologists for the last couple of decades, and the concept for as long as humans have been able to reflect on their cognitive experiences, there is much debate over exactly what metacognition is. One reason for this confusion is the fact that there are several terms currently used to describe the same basic phenomenon (e.g., self-regulation, executive control), or an aspect of that phenomenon (e.g., meta-memory), and these terms are often used interchangeably in the literature. While there are some distinctions between definitions (see Van Zile-Tamsen, 1994, 1996 for a full discussion), all emphasize the role of executive processes in the overseeing and regulation of cognitive processes.