Advance praise forReinventing Organizations “Ground-breaker! Game-changer! Brilliant! The most exciting book I'vereadin years on organization design and leadership models.Sustain-ability?Employee engagement? Innovation? This elegant, parsimo-nious way of working realizes those aspirations effortlessly whileexceeding traditional bottom-line measures and infusing heart andspirit into work without gimmicks. Like a Zen practice, learning to doless takes discipline, and this book shows how letting go gives back—to you, your organization, your stakeholders, and the world.” —Jenny Wade, Ph.D., Author ofChanges of Mind “People have long asked me what a “5thorder,” or “high stage” organiza-tion would look like in the flesh. Frederic Laloux’s richly researchedbookis the closest anyone has come,as yet,to answering thisquestion. This is a stimulating and inspiring read!” —Robert Kegan, Harvard University’s Meehan Professor ofAdult Learning, and author ofIn Over Our Heads “A book likeReinventing Organizations only comes along once in adecade. Sweeping and brilliant in scope, it is theGood To Greatfor amore enlightened age. What it reveals about the organizational modelof the future isexhilarating and deeply hopeful.” —Norman Wolfe,Author ofThe Living Organization “A comprehensive, highly practical account of the emergent worldview inbusiness.Everything you need to know aboutbuilding a newparadigm organization!” —Richard Barrett,Chairman and Founder of theBarrett ValuesCentre “Frederic Laloux has done business people and professionals every-where a signal service. He has discovered a better future for organi-zations bydescribing, in useful detail, the unusual best practices oftoday.” —Bill Torbert, Author ofAction Inquiry “Frederic Laloux’s ‘Teal Organization’ is as close a model to what Icall a ‘consciousorganization’ as I have seen—an organization and aculture that not only thrives in the unfolding paradigm of collectivethought but helps in the unfolding. It could serve as the mid-wife fora new worldview that will allow humankind to consciously evolve toa level where the world works for everyone.” —John Renesch, futurist, founder of FutureShapers, LLC andauthor of 14 books, includingThe Great Growing Up “As the rate of change escalates exponentially, the old ways of organ-izing and educating, which were designed for efficiency and repeti-tion, are dying. Frederic Laloux is one of the few management leadersexploring what comes next. It's deeply different.” —Bill Drayton, Founder, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public REINVENTINGORGANIZATIONS A Guide to Creating OrganizationsInspired by the Next StageofHuman Consciousness Frederic Laloux Copyright © 2014 by Frederic Laloux. First edition. All rights reserved. No parts of this book may be used, reproduced, stored in orintroduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any forms, or by any means(electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without writtenpermission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied incritical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyrightlaw. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in orencourage electronic piracy of copyrightable materials. Your support of theauthor’s rights is appreciated. Published byNELSON PARKER.Nelson Parker is a trademark of Unfolding sprl.54 SerbiaStreet, Brussels 1190, Belgium Quantity sales:Special discounts are available on quantity purchases of theelectronic format of this book. For details, contact the publisher. This book is published in a variety of book formats. Some material included withstandard print versions ofthis book may not be included in the electronicformat. Printed on acid-free paper, partially sourced from recycled waste material. TABLE!OF!CONTENTS! ForewordixIntroduction: the emergence of a new organizational model1! Part!1!1!Historical!and!Developmental!Perspective!11!! 1.1-Changing paradigms:past and present organizational models131.2-About stages of development37!1.3-Evolutionary-Teal43! Part!2!1!The!Structures,!Practices,!and!Cultures!!of!Teal!Organizations!53! 2.1-Three breakthroughsand a metaphor552.2-Self-management (structures)612.3-Self-management (processes)992.4-Striving for wholeness (general practices)1432.5-Striving for wholeness(HRprocesses)1732.6-Listening toevolutionary purpose1932.7-Common cultural traits225 Part!3!1!The!Emergence!of!Teal!Organizations!235!! 3.1-Necessary conditions2373.2-Starting up aTeal Organization259!3.3-Transforminganexisting organization267!3.4-Results285!3.5-TealOrganizationsandTealSociety293 Appendices! 307!! 1-Research questions3092-BeyondEvolutionary-Teal315!3-Structures ofTealOrganizations319!4-Overview ofTealstructures, practices,and processes327! Notes333!Selected readings347!Index351Gratitudes359 INDEX!OF!KEY!STRUCTURES!AND!PRACTICES! Structure! Organizational structure65,67,69,319Staff functions71Project teams / Task