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Living OrganisationsBringing the
Organisational Machine to Life
Terrence BishopArisa Inlakesh
Based on the book Reinventing Organizations
by Frederic Laloux
What Problem?
Runaway Subtle Violence in Language
Change is Happening
• New Consciousness is Already Emerging• New ways of seeing, sensing and responding to
dynamic environments– Changing markets, regulatory environments, staff
demands, consumer demands, executive needs• New values, new business models, new language• Case studies reveal solid patterns of change
– New organisational structures– Supported by new business processes– Inspiring new forms of work and livelihood
Is it real?
Is the ‘New Consciousness’ Real?
• Evolutionary emergence is the one constant• The way things are is not how they were• In the future, our modern ways are primitive
RED ORGANIZATIONSStreet gangsMafiasMercenary armies
RED-POWERStreet gangsMafiasMercenary armies
Like a Wolf Pack:Coherence through fearToughest as leader
RED BREAKTHROUGHS1. Invention of leadership2. Enables group focus
Red Benefits:Large task achievementSurvival through bonding
AMBER ORGANIZATIONSCatholic churchArmiesGovernment agenciesPublic school systems
AMBER-TRADITIONALCatholic churchArmiesGovernment agenciesPublic school systems
Like an Army:Rigid rulesImpersonal rolesLeadership by appointment
AMBER BREAKTHROUGHS1. Formal hierarchies2. Replicable processes
AMBER-TRADITIONAL• Rigid rules• Impersonal roles• Appointed leaders
Amber benefits:Enables large organisationsPersistent goals through time
AMBER ORGANIZATIONS• Rigid rules• Impersonal roles• Appointed leaders
Unhealthy Amber:Violent (red) leadershipWorkers as ‘slaves’Difficult to adapt and change
ORANGE ORGANIZATIONSMultinational organisations- McDonalds, Coke, ToyotaAirlines, large miningGlobal Money and Banking
ORANGE-ACHIEVEMENTMultinational organisationsWall Street
Like a Machine:Assembly of defined, discreet functionsPredictable and controllableLeadership based on effectiveness
ORANGE BREAKTHROUGHS1. Innovation2. Accountability3. Meritocracy
ORANGE-ACHIEVEMENT1. Innovation2. Accountability3. Meritocracy
Orange Benefits:Iterative complexitySupports innovationDistributes wealth based on merit
ORANGE ORGANIZATIONS1. Innovation2. Accountability3. Meritocracy
Unhealthy Orange:Isolates leaders from realityDehumanises workersConcentrates wealth and power
Notice…
• With each new worldview, the way everything is done is different
• Each new emergence involves rethinking every aspect of our ‘way of doing things’…– beliefs about why and what we are doing– language, metaphors, myths– organisational model, task and process structures– goals and success measurement
• Proof it is happening is the presence and robustness of the conversation about it
GREEN ORGANIZATIONSStarbucksSouthwest AirlinesZappos.comBen & Jerry’s
GREEN-PLURALISTICStarbucksSouthwest AirlinesZappos.comBen & Jerry’s
Like a Family:Relationships matterMinimal hierarchyGrowth and Happiness for everyone
GREEN BREAKTHROUGHS1. Values-driven culture2. Empowerment3. Stakeholder model
GREEN-PLURALISTIC1. Values-driven culture2. Empowerment3. Stakeholder model
Green Benefits:Collective productivitySensitive to consumer contextEvokes creativity and loyalty
GREEN ORGANIZATIONS1. Values-driven culture2. Empowerment3. Stakeholder model
Unhealthy Green:Lack of structureLoss of competitive spiritVulnerable to values gridlock
What’s next?
• Study by Frederic Laloux• Case studies involving 30 organizations
– From a few hundred to several thousand staff– Engineering, retail, health care, mental health,
schools, media, food processing, e-commerce, +– Short and long value chains
• Reveals new organizational model that offers major breakthroughs in market performance
TEAL ORGANIZATIONSBuurtzorgMorning StarPatagonia+++
Evolutionary
TEAL-EVOLUTIONARYBuurtzorgMorningstarPatagonia
Like a Living System:Evolutionary growthInternally governed adaptation to changeSense and respond relationship with environment
TEAL BREAKTHROUGHS1. Evolutionary Purpose2. Self Responsibility3. Wholeness
Evolutionary
TEAL BREAKTHROUGHS1. Evolutionary Purpose2. Self Management3. Wholeness
Teal Benefits:Self-responsive to threats and opportunitiesEnables creative potential of all workersEliminates executive decision overloadStreamlines processes to improve productivity
Teal Breakthroughs
Evolutionary PurposeSelf Management
Wholeness
InnovationAccountability
Meritocracy
Enables group focusInvention of leadership
Values-driven cultureEmpowermentStakeholder model
Replicable processesFormal hierarchies
Unfolding Patterns
red amber orange green teal
structure fluid, personality based
rigid pyramid
pyramid with tunnels
empowered pyramid
living system
leadership fear rules hero servant inspiration
decisions top-down impulsive
top-down (rule based)
top-down (impact based)
consensus advice process
promotions boss’ darling
credentials best achiever
most respected
holds best space
compensation by decree salary incentives team bonus self determined
transformation back to roots
diagnosis,design, remedy
culture shift re-view purpose and processes
Perspectives from Philippe Bailleur
Evolutionary Purpose
Why the organization existsWhy am I involved?• Assumptions about what matters• Hierarchy of purpose and function
(not of power or people)• Supporting practices:
– Recruitment– Empty chair meeting practice
Essence of Focus and Commitment
Evolutionary PurposePatagonia's Mission Statement Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.
Buurtzorg (USA) Mission Statementto change and improve the delivery and quality of home health care through the leadership and collaboration of the community nurse, allowing the individual to receive the kind of care they most need, where they most want it, and thus avoid more costly institutional care for as long as possible.
Evolutionary ProcessesStrategy
Product management and innovation
Targets
Performance Management
Meetings
Competition
Profit and market share
Planning and BudgetsMarketing
Change management
On BoardingRecruitment
Self Management
• No-one is the boss of anyone else– although the CEO is still the visionary
• Highly structured without hierarchies– e.g. human cell, morning traffic, forest– daily blogs, forums, transparency
• Supporting Practices– advice process for decision making– deep listening for conflict resolution– peer recruitment and evaluation
Essence of Distributed Intelligence
Decision Making
• Hierarchical vs. Consensus• Transcend and Include: Advice Process
– Seek advice from people with expertise– Seek advice from those impacted by decision
• Not everyone is equal in all matters– Fluid hierarchies of recognition, influence and skill
• Live with the consequences of your decisions– Self and Peer reviewed
Remuneration
• Everyone decides their own pay level– valued by usefulness of perspectives
and willingness and skill in sharing– hybrid package of salary and incentives
• Advice process feedback from local committee• Everyone knows everyone’s package
– transparency removes salary as a stressor
Inner Self Management
• personal transformation required…– finding your role in the creation of every outcome– self evaluating behaviour in every context– self measurement of contribution and flow– awareness of changing emotional states– acknowledging to others of mistakes– identifying the ways others made success possible
Self Management ProcessesDecision Making
Project managementPerformance management
Staff functions
Compensation and incentivesJob titles and job descriptions
Dismissal
Crisis managementMeetings
Conflict management
Wholeness
• More than just the driven, rational achiever• Space for play, intuition and vulnerability• Honesty about strengths and weaknesses• Supporting practices:
– Ground rules for safe space • Emotional realities, mental perspectives, spiritual views
– Office or factory building design and decor– On-boarding process– Meeting practices
Essence of Creative Engagement
Reinventing WholenessStorytelling
Compensation and Incentives
Recruitment
Working Hours
Meetings
Job titles and job descriptions
Conflict Resolution
Feedback and EvaluationsSafe Space
Office Spaces
On Boarding Dismissal processes
Wholeness Coming Home
• personal transformation required– know that your success is assured, when you are
navigating without fear – there is enough.– receive graciously all events and changes as
opportunities to learn – nothing is by accident.– welcome the influence of others in the co-creation
of your shared future.– be unafraid to explore, to experiment and to fail.– know that you know for sure only one thing.
Teal Light
• Seek wholeness that includes personal gain– values rational, emotional & intuitive domains– new way of seeing creates new way of being
- confident in abundance vs. fearful of scarcity - absence of subtle manipulation or bullying - focused and playful, open and unafraid
– less serious, less dramatic, more purposeful– evolutionary purpose drives all words & deeds– willing to be surprised, to learn and be humble
Teal Shadow
• Emergence of healthy ego leads to narcissism– insistent about ‘how it should be’– devalues views of others– complex defences against critique and regret
• …can lead to the Master Manipulator– uses ‘skilful means’ in service of self– can justify or reframe almost any ethical challenge– uses drama to destabilise then influence systems
Case Study - Buurtzorg
German mental health hospitals
• Holistic, person-centred approach– Emotional, physical, spiritual
• Training in Active Listening and NVC• Tibetan Bells at every meeting
– Who am I trying to serve?
Secondary School in Berlin
• ESBZ – public, grades 7-12, 500 students• Self-managed students
– Self-paced learning, student logbooks– Mixed-grade classes where students teach students– Teachers as mentors and coaches
• Self-managed teachers– 2 teachers x 3 classes = ‘mini-school team’
• Self-managed parents– Building maintenance, some teacher salary
How to Get There?
• Explore existing assumptions– Prediction, control, power, processes– Discover how existing systems enforce values
• Explore through dialogue…– Personal transformation– Changes to business systems and processes– Train on how to experiment and decide
• Implement (hybrid?) advice process• Implement ‘sense and respond’ approach
Structures
Parallel Teams
Web of Contracts
Nested Teams
Everyday Processes
• Rituals processes –practices designed to evoke a way of seeing that serves teal principles– Remembering Purpose – why are we here?– Listening into Deep Presence with others– Exploring vs. instructing – mutual development– Watching for State Changes in self and other– Starting with Thank You … “It’s all good!”– Practise of welcoming problems
Transformational Skyhooks
• Remember your shared evolutionary purpose– Bring your passion to all you do at work– Commitment to manifesting the shared vision– Develop a natural clarity on priorities– Develop a natural trust in colleagues– Develop a naturally contagious enthusiasm
Transformational Skyhooks
• Remember to listen with the ears of the heart– Sensitive to the context of shared purpose– Hears and embraces both reason and feeling,
structure and free flow of the creative– Accepting and yet discerning, open yet alert– Natural integrative intelligence that is the seat of
creativity
Transformational Skyhooks
• Remember that context creates meaning– Watch for meaning displacement across contexts– Open to new and more constructive meaning in
the present context
• Welcome resistance and judgment– Shows where you are attached to old ways
Subtle Violence• The subtle body is an auric energy field that defines and animates
the human personality …– The environment in which the subtle body lives is made of thoughts,
words and actions that carry both meaning and emotion.– Different contexts are defined by different structures of meaning that
evoke different feeling tones and their behaviours.• e.g. home, work, intimate relationships, time alone, with friends, driving, etc.• created by the rules, agreements, contracts, instruction, information … spoken
and recorded, explicit and implied.– contexts create and inform the meaning attached to experience, and
are often skewed to favour those who created or control them.
• Where the structure of a context includes a threat (of punishment or withdrawal), language becomes an instrument of subtle violence
• Forcefulness and manipulation, so commonplace as to be barely questioned, are the everyday instruments of subtle violence.
NVC and RO
• The essence of teal is the absence of subtle violence from the language that defines the work context.
• The essence of NVC is a description and practise of a structure of language that is inherently non-violent.
• Every participant in a teal workplace will have their own form of NVC.
• NVC packaged for the corporate profit-driven context can be sold as the key that unlocks the possibility of a smooth transition into a more profitable and resilient teal way of doing business.