On what basis do Teal Organizations make important decisions, if not based on trade-offs related to profit and market share? By listening in to the organization’s purpose. This is new vocabulary in an organizational setting. Achievement-Orange thinks of organizations as machines, and machines have no soul, no direction of their own. In that perspective, it’s the role of the CEO and his leadership team to decide what the machine must do. In Evolutionary-Teal, an organization is viewed as a living system, an entity with its own energy, its own identity, its own creative potential and sense of
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