This section deals with the core meaning of this web site. I address questions about:

• the importance of and the search for organizational performance
• the ubiquitous nature of systems
• how structure represents the most important influence on system performance
• how thinking represents the most important element of the structure of a human system
• why we should consider organizations as living entities and...
• why adopting the assumption of living organizations will aid in creating superior organizational performance.

I have consolidated the fundamental elements of these subjects into what I have termed Essential Knowledge, which I propose as a foundation for a new Structure of Assumptions.