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

The organization is viewed as an energy field, emerging potential, a form of life that transcends its stakeholders, pursuing its own unique evolutionary purpose. In that paradigm, we don’t “run” the organization, not even if we are the founder or legal owner. Instead, we are stewards of the organization; we are the vehicle that listens in to the or

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In the twentieth century, a parallel but distinct tradition followed with the influential work of Jean Gebser on human consciousness, leading to Clare Graves’ work as a basis for Spiral Dynamics, as well as to Ken Wilber’s integral theory. Frederic Laloux’s book Reinventing Organizations spread these ideas to a wider audience, examining organisatio

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Because there is no hierarchy of bosses over subordinates, space becomes available for other natural and spontaneous hierarchies to spring up—fluid hierarchies of recognition, influence, and skill (sometimes referred to as “actualization hierarchies” in place of traditional “dominator hierarchies”).