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June 12 - September 7, 2020
There was, of course, no real economic collapse. Only
The duty of directors of B-Corporations is extended to include non-financial interests, such as social benefit, concerns of employees and suppliers, and
Could it be that in a Teal society, we would no longer think in terms of ownership, but in terms of stewardship
Organizations researched for this book found that debates are much more fruitful when they don’t stay at the level of arguing for or against a certain management practice, but when they take place at a deeper level, discussing the often hidden assumptions underneath the practices. You will probably make your life much easier if you articulate the assumptions you hold about people and about work.
The more you self-disclose, the more authentic, the more vulnerable, the more honest you are about your strengths and weaknesses, the safer others will feel to do the same.
The healthy relationship is one where as a founder you see, from the start, the organization as having a life and purpose of its own, distinct from your own wishes and desires.
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. Stanislav Grof
they found a weight had been lifted from their shoulders now that they no longer needed to pressure subordinates to behave and to perform, nor to stay in the good graces of their superior.
Remember a time where you felt you could really be yourself at work, where you didn’t need to act or look the part in any way. Tell me about it. How did you feel at the time? At that time, did you sense a difference in your relationships with your colleagues (and possibly with your clients, your wife or husband, your children)? What was the atmosphere like? Did being fully yourself change anything about your work? Did you feel more productive, more innovative, more …? Tell me about it. Can you think back and try to remember what conditions were in place that helped you to be fully yourself at
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What conditions were in place that helped you to be fully yourself at work?
switch from predict and control to sense and respond
The ideology of leadership and management that underpins large-scale human organizations today is as limiting to organizational success as the ideology of feudalism was limiting to economic success in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Gary Hamel
1) Power is multiplied when everybody gets to be powerful, rather than just a few at the top (self-management); 2) Power is used with more wisdom, as people bring in more of themselves to work (wholeness); and 3) Somehow
Through distribution of power: Self-management creates enormous motivation and energy. We stop working for a boss and start working to meet our inner standards, which
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker
Zero economic growth does not mean no growth. The tragedy of our times is that we’ve mistaken prosperity with growth. Teal societies might have zero or even negative GDP growth but be much richer emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. In all these domains, we can pursue growth and never worry about hitting a wall.
With the Evolutionary-Teal stage, fear of scarcity gives way to trust in abundance.
The notion of ownership, one of the pillars of the Red, Amber, Orange, and Green societies, might
Communal life, which gradually eroded with the advent of the (Achievement-Orange) industrial society, might be reinvented anew, both to respond to energy imperatives and in response to Teal’s yearning for deep and meaningful relationships. In parallel, through existing technology (the Internet and social networks) and perhaps through technology yet to be developed (universal and instant translation? Augmented reality videoconferencing? Telepathy?), we might interact with people far away without the need for traveling; friendships and interest networks might become truly global. In a strange
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Teal, people are satisfied neither with religious dogma (Amber) nor with the exclusively materialistic outlook of modernity (Orange). They seek unity and transcendence through personal experience and practices. This offers the perspective of Teal societies that heal previous religious divisions and re-enchant the materialistic world of modernity through non-religious
Rogoff: “Systems often hold longer than we think, but they end up by collapsing much faster than we imagine.”
When people transition to Evolutionary-Teal, they often tame their need to control the future and learn to trust in abundance. The security of fulltime employment becomes less important than pursuing what is really meaningful. They are ready, sometimes positively happy, to be self-employed or work on a freelance or part-time
With Teal, serving the purpose becomes more important than serving the organization,
There is a simpler way to organize human endeavor. It requires a new way of being in the world. It requires being in the world without fear. Being in the world with play and creativity. Seeking after what’s possible. Being willing to learn and be surprised. The simpler way to organize human endeavor requires a belief that the world is inherently orderly. The world seeks organization. It does not need us humans to organize it.
If we can be in the world in the fullness of our humanity, what are we capable of?
