Hi, I'm Michael Yacavone.

Current work: Michael Yacavone Fine Art Photographics

I'm a humanist, experimentalist, and whole systems strategist.

It goes without saying that the interconnections of the world are transforming the work of people and institutions. As a guiding philosophy, I believe success requires moving from a mental model of managing stocks to one of managing flows – from thinking about fixed quantities to thinking about rates of change – and that business collaboration and design around these systemic flows demands vastly increased cooperation.

What I Care About

• Whole systems, over fragmented perspectives.
• Thoughtful engagement, over snap responsiveness.
• Emergent mystery, over problems/solutions.
• Macro-structures, over micro-details.
• Improvisation within structures, over command and control.
• Goals and outcomes, over deliverables and inputs.
• Leadership, over management.
• Creative and generative, over consumption and extraction.
• Expansion, over reduction.
• Love, over fear.

For fun, I enjoy experimenting with the psychoacoustics of high-resolution audio systems, and optimizing everything in sight for better human experience. I'm also the husband of a beautiful, generous, and loving woman who is a professor of sociology and social psychology, so I enjoy convivial conversation.

Spreading the Word

People say nice things when working together…