This episode is about an organization's environment, a powerful influencing force in any organization. The analogy here is comparing the organizational environment to a crop's soil, and soil fertility is vital for maximizing crop yield. If you guessed that the people within the organization are the crop of your choice, you would be right. 

Crop yield might be analogous to the growth or learning of organizational members. Crop yield might also be analogous to how empowered members of the organization feel or how much autonomy they have to pursue mastery of their crafts. 

Now we get to the central thesis of the soil analogy: the richer the soil, the richer the crop yield. We can unpack what it means to have rich soil within an organization. Does it follow that the richer the organizational environment is, the more growth (or growth opportunities) organizational members will experience?

Key Assumption: The more effort or energy an organization deliberately pours into its members, the more **effective** that organization will be. As applied to organizational effectiveness, Leadosophy defines “effort or energy” as organizational knowledge, organizational tools, and organizational resources, or KTR.

KTR is a main component of the soil.