What is the most productive ecosystem in the world?

Answer 1

As stated it's too broad a question. Given it's posted in the careers section I'm going to assume you mean "ecosystem" as it relates to work and your personal career success. As such it is very insightful: workplaces do indeed have their unique culture - and you may succeed well in one while failing miserably in another. So, where should I work? How can I recognise what workplace is going to be best for me? In a way, all ecosystems are efficient: they perfectly produce the result they are set up to produce. An ecosystem that values a particular sort of result will produce that result more efficiently than one that values a different result. Examples include making lots of money vs achieving fame or notoriety vs protecting the environment vs rapid promotion, or maybe just producing warm and fuzzy relationships where everyone feels safe. So the important question is: what do you want? When you know that, pick the environment that is already visibly producing it. In evaluating an ecosystem, there are two things to pay attention to most of all: 1. the values of leadership team 2. the cultural values The dominant force in defining the ecosystem of an organisation is the CEO or Managing Director. Simply put, if you can't get along with him, strike the place off your list and move on. It's just not worth the pain of trying to be happy in a place that is contrary to the things that are important to you. Next, they way to evaluate the cultural values is to find out who are the people who are most admired in the organisation - who are the Role Models? Observe them, listen to them, and figure out what it is that makes them different. Simply put: any ecosystem will reward a particular type of behaviour and will punish anyone who goes against that behaviour. Are the successful people doing things that you would enjoy doing? Or would you have to compromise yourself and your values? When you can see you can decide if it is a good fit. Lastly, you can see that neither of those evaluations is possible unless you know yourself. You have to get to know what is important to you, prioritise the results you want to achieve, and then align yourself with people who want the same outcomes. Simple? Yes. Easy? No - it's a lifetime's work!