''Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness'' is a book written by
Frédéric Laloux
Frédéric and Frédérick are the French versions of the common male given name Frederick. They may refer to:
In artistry:
* Frédéric Back, Canadian award-winning animator
* Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor
* Frédéric Bazille, Impress ...
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
Frédéric and Frédérick are the French versions of the common male given name Frederick. They may refer to:
In artistry:
* Frédéric Back, Canadian award-winning animator
* Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor
* Frédéric Bazille, Impress ...
screened and researched over fifty organisations, including
Buurtzog Nederland and
The Morning Star Company
The Morning Star Company is a Woodland, California-based agribusiness and food processing company founded in 1970. The company was originally founded as a trucking outfit by Chris Rufer, who remains the sole owner.
Morning Star processes 25% of ...
, 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 and/or political power are vested in individual people based on talent, effort, and achiev ...
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
Alternative Theory of Organization and Management (ATOM) proposes a scientific approach to organization and management. Designed and developed by Seweryn Chajtman, the ATOM concept arose from a need to clarify the adoption and widespread recogni ...
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Holacracy
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Holistic management
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Organizational culture
Historically there have been differences among investigators regarding the definition of organizational culture. Edgar Schein, a leading researcher in this field, defined "organizational culture" as comprising a number of features, including a s ...
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Organization development
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Organizational theory
Organizational theory refers to the set of interrelated concepts that involve the sociological study of the structures and operations of formal social organizations. Organizational theory also attempts to explain how interrelated units of organiz ...
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Workers' self-management
Notes and references
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HuffPost,
Reinventing Management, Part 1: What Color Is Your Organization?', 06/12/2017
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Strategy+Business
Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία ''stratēgia'', "art of troop leader; 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 sense of the "art ...
,
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
Business books
Belgian books
Organizational studies
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