Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

by Frederic Laloux

Self-managing organizations are exceedingly flexible and accumulate little overhead;

Maintaining jobs artificially makes no sense from an Evolutionary-Teal perspective.

We value job security, but ultimately it is a notion inspired by fear.

when an organization truly lives for its purpose, there is no competition.

Growth, in the same vein, is only an objective insofar as the purpose can be manifested on a larger scale, but never an objective in itself.

Teal practices unleash tremendous energies; when these energies meet a noble purpose and a deep hunger in the world, how could anything but growth ensue?

My view of business is that we are coming together as a community to fill a human need and actualize our lives.

purpose came before profits.

By listeningin to the organization’s purpose.

“What is this organization’s calling?” Not “What do we want to use this organization to do, as property?”

“What is this life, this living system’s creative potential?” That’s what we mean by evolutionary purpose: the deepest creative potential to bring something new to life, to contribute something energetically, valuably to the world.

they find that keeping it oral keeps it alive, and prevents it from becoming constraining. To use Robertson’s term, it allows the purpose to be evolutionary, to keep evolving.

do we listen hard enough to hear the purpose?