Sublime

This spiritual insight inspires Teal Organizations’ second breakthrough: to create a space that supports us in our journey to wholeness. Extraordinary things begin to happen when we dare to bring all of who we are to work.

people don’t perceive themselves as entirely distinct from others or from the environment (which causes some to romanticize about this period, seeing it as pre-dualism bliss, ignoring the extremely high rate of violence and murder at this stage).

strong, shared culture is the glue that keeps empowered organizations from falling apart. Frontline employees are trusted to make the right decisions, guided by a number of shared values, rather than by a thick book of rules and policies.

With this stage comes a deep yearning for wholeness—bringing together the ego and the deeper parts of the self; integrating mind, body, and soul; cultivating both the feminine and masculine parts within; being whole in relation to others; and repairing our broken relationship with life and nature.

“advice process.” It is very simple: in principle, any person in the organization can make any decision. But before doing so, that person must seek advice from all affected parties and people with expertise on the matter.

With this cognitive capacity one can question authority, group norms, and the inherited status quo. In the Western world, Achievement-Orange thinking started to poke holes in the Conformist-Amber world of Christian certainties during the

The self operating from this perspective strives to belong, to foster close and harmonious bonds with everyone. Orange promised a worldcentric stance; Green wants to cash in on the promise. Not only should individuals be able to break free from the prison of conventional roles, but the entire edifice of castes, social classes, patriarchy, instituti

What determines which stage an organization operates from? It is the stage through which its leadership tends to look at the world. Consciously or unconsciously, leaders put in place organizational structures, practices, and cultures that make sense to them, that correspond to their way of dealing with the world.