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The advent of Amber Organizations brought about two major breakthroughs: organizations can now plan for the medium and long term, and they can create organizational structures that are stable and can scale.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
solve architectural problems in a way that made an artistic statement at, he hoped, no cost to functional utility.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
The next morning, participants are asked to gather in the same teams of eight people to pick up the thread from the previous day. Each team is invited to define two to three initiatives that could turn the vision they had imagined the previous day into reality.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Further,Townsend was the first corporate chief to practice what is just now being preached in the best-led corporations: no reserved parking spaces, no org. charts, no job descriptions, no short-term pandering to Wall Street, no company planes, no golf club memberships.
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
In a broad generalization, it is safe to say that, in developed societies, Impulsive-Red Organizations persist only at the fringes of legal activity. Conformist-Amber is still heavily present in government agencies, the military, religious organizations, and public school systems. Achievement-Orange is clearly the dominant paradigm of business corp
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Organizations molded in Impulsive-Red consciousness first appeared in the form of small conquering armies,
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
A third approach consists of implementing an existing and proven set of self-managing practices. Holacracy is a natural candidate in this case. It is an elegant and interlocking set of practices for self-management that was pioneered originally with Ternary Software but has now been turned into an “organizational operating system” ready to be adopt
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ability to unite opposites, to pull together different influences,