Sublime

Self-management: Teal Organizations have found the key to operate effectively, even at a large scale, with a system based on peer relationships, without the need for either hierarchy or consensus.

many practice groups continue to maintain expertise-based approaches to running their affairs when their marketplace is probably closer to the efficiency stage.

This design philosophy assumes that the environment is active and the user passive.

In practice, to avoid information getting distorted or lost as it spreads from one person to another, self-managing organizations use their intranet as a central repository where everybody can publish and retrieve information in real time.

Mostly, though, the coach’s role is to ask the insightful questions that help teams find their own solutions. Coaches mirror to teams unhelpful behavior and can at critical moments raise the flag and suggest that a team pause to deal with a serious problem.