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Ellaine N. Mae, Alexis C . Dionela, Zenaida M. Buenafe, Angela S.
Respino, Agayle Aguilar, Khyle E. Delmendo, Nelsie R. Rapa, “REINVENTING ORGANIZATIONS”
Mentored By: Prof Geuel F. Auste A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
MBA- Organization & Management
By Frederic Laloux
“You see things not as they are, but as you are,” PAST AND CURRENT ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL
Eric Butterworth

Reactive –INFRARED Magic – MAGENTA Impulsive– RED Conformist―AMBER Achier – ORANGE Pluralistic - Green Evolutionary – TEAL
Paradigm Paradigm Organization Organization Organizations Organizations Organizations
- Earliest - Around 15,000 ago Characteristic Characteristics Characteristics Characteristics Characteristics
developmental stage - Shift from small - Constant exercise - Highly formal roles w/in a - Goal is to beat - Within the classic - Self-management
of humanity family bands to of power by chief to hierarchical pyramid. competition; achieve pyramid structure, replaces hierarchical
- Spanning the tribes keep troops in line - Top down command and profit & growth. focus on culture & pyramid.
period from 100,000 - Just a few hundred - Fear is the glue control (what & how) - Innovation is the key to empowerment to - Organization is seen
to 5,000 B.C. people of the - Stability valued above all staying ahead. achieve extraordinary as a living entity, with
- Live in small bands - Step up in the ability organization through rigorous - Management by employee motivation. its own creative
of family kinships, to handle complexity - Highly reactive, processes. objectives Leadership Style potential
- Just a few dozen - Seek comfort in short term focus. - Future is repetition of the .
(command & control on - Consensus oriented and evolutionary
people ritualistic behaviors - Thrive in chaotic past. what; freedom on the Participative,, service purpose
- Very limited to - Following the elder environments. Leadership Style how.) Examples Leadership Style
handle complexity in and the shaman Leadership Style - Paternalistic-authoritative Leadership Style - Culture driven - Distributed leadership
relationship - Organization don’t - Predatory Examples - Goal-and task-oriented, organization with inner rightness and
- Ego is not fully exist at this stage yet. Examples - Catholic church decisive (e.g. Southwest purpose as primary
formed - Task differentiation - Mafia - Military Examples Airlines; motivator and yardstick
- Foraging is the remains extremely - Street gangs - Most government -Multinational Ben & Jerry’s...) Examples
basis of subsistence limited. - Tribal militias agencies companies Key Breakthroughs - Patagonia
- No division of labor Key Breakthroughs - Public school systems. - Charter schools - Empowerment - FAVI
to speak - Division of labor Key Breakthroughs Key breakthroughs - Values-driven culture - Buurtzorg
- No hierarchy, no “The greatest danger in Key Breakthroughs
- Command - Formal roles - Innovation - Stakeholder model
elder times of turbulence is not - Self management
authority (stable & scalable - Accountability Metaphor:
- No chief that the turbulence – It is to act - Wholeness
Metaphor: hierarchies) - Meritocracy Family
provides leadership with yesterday’s logic.” - Evolutionary purpose
- Wolfpack - Processes Metaphor:
Peter Drucker Metaphor:
(long term perspectives) - Machine
“People don’t resist change. Metaphor: - Living Organism
They resist being changed.” Success of Teal Organizations: - Army
Peter Senge - Through purpose
- Through distribution of power
“When you change the
- Through learning
way you look at things,
- Through better use of talent
3 TEAL Breakthroughs
the things you look at
- Less energy wasted In propping up the ego  Self-management – operate effectively, even at a large scale, w/ a system based on peer relationship,
change.” - Wayne Dyer w/out the need for either hierarchy or consensus.
- Less energy wasted in compliance
“Every challenge you encounter - Less energy wasted in meetings  Wholeness – practices that invite us to reclaim or inner wholeness & bring all of who we are, instead
In life is a fork in the road. You - Through better sensing of with a narrow “professional” self / “masculine resolve” etc.
have the choice to choose w/c - Through better decision-making  Evolutionary purpose – organization seen as having a life & a sense of direction of their own.
way to go – backward, forward, - Through more decision-making Instead of trying to predict and control the future, members of the organization are invited
- Through timely decision-making
breakdown or breakthrough.”- to listen in & understand what the organization wants to become, what purpose it wants to serve.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha - Through alignment w/ evolutionary purpose

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