On May 29, 2026, I was examining how the language of “resources” shapes management.
Calling people resources can make capacity visible while making personhood, judgment, and agency easier to overlook. The opposite is not to assume that everyone becomes an owner or creator when management stops suppressing them.
The farming metaphor also needs limits. Extractive and regenerative agriculture are specific practices with environmental evidence that cannot be transferred directly to people. Employees are not soil, and organizational outcomes are not harvests.
Still, the contrast suggests useful questions:
- Is the organization treating capacity as something to consume or develop?
- Do people have authority appropriate to their responsibility?
- Can they challenge the work without being reduced to a KPI?
- What conditions help contribution recover after strain?
- Where are fear, judgment, cynicism, scarcity, or inattention affecting how people meet one another?
“Higher self” is personal language, not an organizational state that can be engineered. Morning reflection, evening review, empathy, purpose, and AI-assisted thinking may help in some settings. None guarantees better prompts, outcomes, creativity, or resilience.
The durable point is simpler: people are participants in creation, not supplies to be depleted.
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