The beginnings of a better world

The beginnings of a better world

Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness (Paperback)

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First of all, I'd like to ask your permission to talk a little subjective. As you will understand below, sil is a work of which the interest and the impact depends largely on the constitution of the reader, this is good one. I will begin by describing the effects that it had on my little person before exposure more generally why I think its content deserves your attention. I'm starting.

Six months have passed since my reading Reinventing Organizations. Yet I knew at linstant where i turned the last page, that it was important that jen write a review. On the one hand because its spread mest immediately emerged as crucial to the evolution of the business and of humanity. I wanted, in my small way, to participate in this spread. And secondly, to crystallize in me a maximum of lessons that he lavishes, questions that it brings, and personal reflections that he engages. But it seemed significant to wait. A book of this scope would necessarily longer-term effects of which I did not want me / you deprive yourself. After all, Harold Jarche presented him on his blog as THE book of the decade. It would have been a pity to rush.

A posteriori, I would say it mildly. In six months, much has changed for me. And I know that this book is a major cause. Already, because I never really lai closed. I actually came across one of the few CEOs ready not only to hear the principles advanced by Frederic Laloux [you realize why they are so rare in a moment] but also to test the situation. This allowed me to gauge the passage, and work on my ability to embody them. Jai gradually managed to put words to many of my reluctance - often barely conscious - relating to current management practices, hierarchy, or that Michael Porter & Cie call competitive strategy, still regarded today as the line default driving. In parallel, I began to mintéresser to spirituality, to Lego, to meditation, to conflict management. The whole, punctuated evolution research, energy, the cosmos [...] I've even been able to make peace with some of my relatives and former associates with whom values ​​such conflicts were quaucune discussion both honest and civilized wasnt possible. What I am trying to tell you, this is quau beyond méveiller on management, Organizations Reinventing made me grow as a human quêtre. No. It makes me grow. Every day a little more. I consider today's reading as a beginning, the starting point of a new self. For he has set in motion unsuspected some portions of my deep structure.

Now that the party intimate confessions is over, try to speak some of the reasons for these changes, touching objectively the content of the book.

In recent years, the number dauteurs that promise to deliver to the organization lhumain center knows a beautiful swing. Frederic Laloux is not only one of the few to realize this promise convincingly, but it is mostly the only one, to my knowledge, to lend him a look so deep. To understand organizations - who are human systems - Understand the man. And to understand the man, you have to step back from humanity. Thats why if you still expect a first tangible reason to read Reinventing Organizations, I think it is this: a valuable perspective on human nature. And by extension, your own nature.

Inspired by the full theory signed Ken Wilber among others the beginning of the book describes the evolution of human consciousness, the beginnings of our species to today. We learn that this development can be divided into a number of phases, each corresponding to a very specific vision of the world, consisting of a panel equally specific core values ​​and preconceived of ideas on the human being. These forms of consciousness gradually pour in the other moon over generations, companies and individuals, in which they are then forced to coexist. This despite the fact what are mostly incompatible. Could this be the reason why it is sometimes so difficult to communicate without offending each other [or worse]? The acceptance of our structure and our personal differences it would be the only way out? The shape of our Ego she would be both a marker and a potential tool devolution? Who am I full of the scale? Which path separates me from the person I'd like to be? Pfiouu ...

This analysis is good. She wakes. It frightens sometimes. But as striking and profound as it is, of course she nest quun start. The human lens through which Mr Laloux chose dexplorer organizations. Systems that exist, too, since the beginnings of human nature. The clans, gangs, villages, kingdoms, the church, the mafia ... and of course businesses. If humanity can be cut into different forms of consciousness, nen Is not it the same for the organizations? That's another rhetorical question :) The second part of louvrage indeed describes a systematic renewal in the way men sorganisent to the appearance of each new phase. One quickly realizes how the world view which bears the foundation of any human system is decisive for its future, in the sense that it affects drastically its culture, its structure, its goals, its operation and its impact. If the exploration of these various types dentités reveals, the look that you will wear it as much ballast. As you can imagine, the form of consciousness with which modern management and consider that we live for 100 years as evidence has been developed is far from the last. What you deny, accept or suffer today, against which you struggle, what you play, what you think is best, or just idealistic ... You will touch all this finger. To better draw conclusions that will be clean. But whatever your predominant phase, I am quite willing to bet that things will move in you. Jai however much more difficult to predict the impact of nature that the last part - the very heart of louvrage - will carry on your person. This is what, in my opinion, makes it so precious.

Teal. Turquoise. Color Frederic Laloux awards at the most advanced stage of human consciousness to this day [yes, at each stage color]. Those of us who embody this point go far in lassainissement their ego. Relying on a long and rigorous spiritual work, or for the lucky, helped by their heritage, these Beings observe the world through the prism of Trust and The acceptance. They have such knowledge of all facets of their deep Me, and its interconnection with all the ViaMichelin elements, that the importance and significance of this I - as distinct from any quentité - seffacent. And with them, the considerations which the world remains captive, often without even knowing it. Considerations such as control, possession, protection or power which, guided by fear, Nont result that divide us. The big question that follows: what therefore the organization derived from this form of consciousness can she look like?

This is actually much simpler that it seems ny. Teal The organization is based on a different idea of ​​humanity. Where most contemporary companies consider that the man is naturally refractory to work, and that his selfish nature demands that it is motivated by a whip, a salary and privileges, we rely here on opposite lexact. The man is naturally good, intended to contribute to the world, and has inside of him much more powerful motivation than the natural fabric of promise invented by the systems we know. In fact, it allows lorsquon BE fully himself to work, collaborate with peers who share the same mission that he, and freely organize themselves in pursuit of this mission - equitably distributing power and his alter ego, responsibility - energy is released as powerful quinsoupçonnées. In other words, the collective consciousness is revealed, self-will, the soul of the company. Far from the well oiled machine that theories of the 20th century want to do, said company finally claims its natural form. That of a living organism in constant flux, complex, interconnected, collaborative, transparent, uncontrollable ... A bit like internet in the end. But an internet in which we would have put the best of human nature. An internet that works to make himself useful and leave a mark on the world, not because the last in fashion marketing theorist said cétait the best way to sell, but because this is his BE reason.

So that's why I can not promise anything about the impact that the exhibition at Teal model will have on you. Depending on your view of the world, this model can be presented as evidence, a goal, an ideal, a simple fairy tale, a heresy ... Depending on your role inside or the outside of organizations, you leave your job? Will you create your box? Will you be attending Bad Manager Anonymous [an idea proposed recently by a reader on facebook Frederic Laloux]? You will camp on your positions? No idea. From where the subjective dimension that i want to give this review. This is also why Reinventing Organizations nest by no means a miracle cure. The light that he brings to the management will not be perceived as such by everyone. But whatever your posture, know that these companies exist, and have been for much longer than you think. Louvrage you possibly going to get you an interesting selection analysis because it touches on structures of all sizes and from all sectors. You will learn more about the different foundations and principles that all these structures have in common, as well as on how to scale your organization or building a new den, with the Teal model in mind. That's it.

I will conclude with one last little thing I was able to collect over the analyzes of Mr Laloux. These companies are full of happy people. Happy, but also enthusiasts. Generous. Humble. Officials. Confident. Conscientious. A tuned. In harmony with themselves and their surroundings. And of course, if you still doubt, a superior performance both in terms of their common mission and financially [where should I say, opposite their Mission therefore financially]. See these bodies radiate their customers and partners, their environment, and sometimes even their competitors, gives me the hope. I tell myself that one day perhaps, if works of Reinventing Organizations continue gauge BE writings, propagated and implemented, these rays ALL OPERATING reach of our institutions. Not only companies, but also our political and educational systems. That day will mark undoubtedly for me, the beginnings of a better world.

Thank you, Frederic Laloux.

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