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Green Organizations retain the meritocratic hierarchical structure of Orange, but push a majority of decisions down to frontline workers who can make far-reaching decisions without management approval.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
They promote internal networking.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
When competing commitments need to be resolved, the questions are, how will the decision be made: through a mandate from on high, by majority rule, through consensus where everyone involved must agree? What groups are going to lose something as a result of this decision, and what precisely are they going to lose?
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Rather, what we are talking about is finding ways to make client assignments substantively more valuable to clients by changing the way professionals interact with their clients during the project.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
cities should be designed for people,
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
Orange glorifies decisive leadership, while Green insists that leaders should be in service of those they lead.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Making decentralization and empowerment work on a large scale is no easy feat. Top and middle managers are effectively asked to share power and give up some control. To make it work, companies have found that they needed to very clearly spell out the kind of Green leadership that they expect from people in senior and middle management.