In the online business world, through an Industrial Revolution lens, you set your business up like a factory. Input money into the Facebook ads machine and it spits out views or purchases. Input people into your funnel and it spits out buyers. You see your business as a machine, which makes it so you and your team are cogs in the machine.

There are right and wrong ways to do business in this factory model, so you follow a formula given to you and make everything as efficient as possible.

Let’s compare this with Nature’s systems. Ecosystems. Look around the world and there are ## different ecosystems that are responsive to the other ecosystems that are around them.

There is no one right way because the right-ness of one system depends on the climate, the geography, the species that wander in and out.

If we drill in a bit, and focus on the forest-like systems that are highly abundant and self-reliant, you find 3 types:

The Oak Savannah

The Recovering Forest, and

The Mature Forest

The key piece in all of these is what? Trees. Mature trees that create stability for the long-term. Along with this are other perennial plants.