— Jenny Wade, Ph.D.author ofChanges of Mind Copyright © 2016 by Frederic Laloux.First edition. Published by Nelson Parker. All rights reserved. No parts of this book may be used, reproduced, stored in or introducedinto a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any forms, or by any means (electronic, mechanical,photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without written permission of the publisher, except in thecase of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses. Praisefor the original editionof Reinventing Organizations “A stimulating and inspiring read!” Robert Kegan,Harvard University’s Meehan Professor of Adult Learningand author ofIn Over Our Heads “Everything you need to know about buildinga new paradigm organization!” Richard Barrett,chairman and founder of the Barrett Values Centre “Congratulations on a spectacular treatise.”Ken Wilber,author ofA Brief History of Everything “Ground-breaker! Game-changer! Brilliant!”Jenny Wade,Ph.D., author ofChanges of Mind “Frederic Laloux has done business people and professionalseverywhere a signal service.” Bill Torbert,author ofAction Inquiry “The most important and inspiring business book I’ve ever read.”Tony Schwartz,author ofThe Way We're Working Isn't Working “A book likeReinventing Organizationsonly comesalong once in a decade.” Norman Wolfe,author ofThe Living Organization “Frederic Laloux is one of the few management leaders exploringwhat comes next. It's deeply different.” Bill Drayton,founder, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public If you purchased this book, or chose the pay-what feels-right option The organizations I write about in this book believe in trust—they start with thepremise that their employees are trustworthy and want to do the right thing.In the same spirit, I decided not to protect this book with DRM, which so oftenproves annoying when you decide to read the book on a different screen thanthe one from which you bought it. I trust that you value this as your personal copy. You can point people interestedin this book towww.reinventingorganizations.com. There they can buy the bookor download it in “pay what feels right” mode, so there is no need for sendingthem your copy. Please don’t forward it. If this book was somehow forwarded to you I invite you to take a moment, once you’ve read it, to sense what amount youwould like to give back to me and Etienne. You can do so onwww.reinventingor-ganizations.com. One thing I've heard from many readers: if you choose to giftback an amount that feelsrightto you, you are also likely to feelgoodabout it! Your gift will be a beautiful reward for the long, long hours we put into creatingthis book. I enjoy the "gift economy" for another reason too: I I feel it creates abond between us, even if we never meet, in a way a paid transaction doesn’t. Andmore broadly, I believe that practicing trust in such simple ways can invisibly butpowerfully nurture a broader culture of trust in the world. Try it out! :-) INTRODUCTIONThis doesn’t quite look like a management book PART 1Could we be about to invent a whole new management paradigm? PART 2How do these new organizations work, then? Self-managementWholenessEvolutionary purpose5781111 PART 3So… how do we get there? 7INTRODUCTION This doesn’t quite looklike a management book Many people seemtruly inspiredto hear that a whole new kind oforganization is emerging … but not everyone has time to reada 360-page management book about it. Reinventing Organizationsis one of those rare booksthat has become a true word-of-mouth phenomenon.Its hopeful message that we can build radically morepowerful, soulful, and purposeful organizations hasresonated with readers all around the world. A great number among us yearn for somethingmore and resonate with the hopeful mes-sage that a better way to run businesses andnonprofits, schools and hospitals is emerging.But—can you believe it?—I’ve been told The most amazing things have started happening.Readers in many countries spontaneously reached outto publishers to insist on a translation. Two readers inChile decided not to wait and paid for a translationthemselves, and so did a reader in Ukraine for a Russiantranslation. Someone in the US bought himself a homestudio to record an audio version. Other readers arebusy creating a computer game from the book, andan increasing number of university professors haveintegrated the book into the curriculum of theirbusiness schools. As a result of all this momentum, I’mhearing from lots and lots of organizations, large andsmall, that have committed to fundamentally reinventthemselves. introductory version to the ideasofReinventing Organizations! That so many people resonate with the book has todo, I believe, with the fact that almost everyone todayfeels that something is broken in our organizations.We can all tell sad stories of how management, aswe practice it today, drains life and energy out of theworkplace: organizations where burea