''Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness'' is a book written by
Frédéric Laloux and published in 2014. It lists the different paradigms of the human organizations through the ages and proposes a new one:
Teal organisation. The latter is built on three pillars related to wholeness, self-management, and evolutionary purpose.
Overview
Frédéric Laloux screened and researched over fifty organisations, including
Buurtzorg Nederland
Buurtzorg Nederland is a Healthcare in the Netherlands, Dutch home-care organization which has attracted international attention for its innovative use of independent nurse teams in delivering relatively low-cost care. The word ''buurtzorg'' is Du ...
and
The Morning Star Company, with the following conditions: they had been operating for at least five years with a minimum of one hundred employees, and with a significant number of management practices that were consistent with the Teal level of consciousness. Laloux describes the five stages of organisational structure, each of which is designated a colour (Red, Amber, Orange, Green, Teal) depending on how 'evolved' they are. He describes the management structure and developments associated with each stage, such as the creation of
meritocracy
Meritocracy (''merit'', from Latin , and ''-cracy'', from Ancient Greek 'strength, power') is the notion of a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on ability and talent, rather than ...
and replicable processes.
The current stage, Teal, is the one that Laloux has based his research and the book around. Teal is driven by self-management, intuitive reasoning, decentralised decision-making, wholeness, and a deeper sense of purpose.
Depending on the edition, Laloux goes into varying detail about the practices associated with self-management, wholeness, and evolutionary purpose, as well as giving case studies that exemplify said practices.
See also
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Alternative Theory of Organization and Management
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Holacracy
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Holistic management
In agriculture, holistic management (from ''holos'', a Greek word meaning "all, whole, entire, total") is an approach to managing resources that was originally developed by Allan Savory for grazing management. Holistic management has been lik ...
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Organizational culture
Organizational culture encompasses the shared norms, values, corporate language and behaviors - observed in schools, universities, not-for-profit groups, government agencies, and businesses - reflecting their core values and strategic direction. ...
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Organization development
Organization development (OD) is the study and implementation of practices, systems, and techniques that affect organizational change. The goal of which is to modify a group's/organization's performance and/or culture. The organizational chang ...
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Organizational theory
Organizational theory refers to a series of interrelated concepts that involve the sociological study of the structures and operations of formal social organizations. Organizational theory also seeks to explain how interrelated units of organiza ...
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Workers' self-management
Workers' self-management, also referred to as labor management and organizational self-management, is a form of organizational management based on self-directed work processes on the part of an organization's workforce. Self-managed economy, ...
Notes and references
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HuffPost
''HuffPost'' (''The Huffington Post'' until 2017, itself often abbreviated as ''HPo'') is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and covers p ...
,
Reinventing Management, Part 1: What Color Is Your Organization?', 06/12/2017
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Strategy+Business
Strategy (from Ancient Greek, Greek στρατηγία ''stratēgia'', "troop leadership; office of general, command, generalship") is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sens ...
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The Future of Management Is Teal', 06/07/2015
Bibliography
* Frederic Laloux. ''Reinventing Organisations: A Guide to Creating Organisations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness''. Nelson Parker.February 9, 2014.
References
External links
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Reinventing organizations wiki- the official wiki
2014 non-fiction books
Books about organizations
Belgian books
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