''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
A Teal organisation is an organization that adheres to an organizational theory based on workers' self-management. The term was coined in 2014 by Frederic Laloux in his book ''Reinventing Organizations''. Laloux uses a descriptive model in which h ...
. 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
Buurtzog Nederland 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 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
Holacracy is a method of decentralized management and organizational governance, which claims to distribute authority and decision-making through a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy. Holacracy has ...
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Holistic management
Holistic Management (from ''holos'', a Greek word meaning ''all'', ''whole'', ''entire'', ''total'') in agriculture is an approach to managing resources that was originally developed by Allan Savory. Holistic Management is a registered tradem ...
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Organizational culture
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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 an organization's performance and/or culture. The organizational changes are ...
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Organizational theory
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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-management is a def ...
Notes and references
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HuffPost
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,
Reinventing Management, Part 1: What Color Is Your Organization?', 06/12/2017
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Strategy+Business,
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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