Sublime

Together openness and merit embodied a deep belief that decision-making processes could be transformed if people become more able to surface and discuss productively their different ways of looking at the world.

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.

If we are to invite all of who we are to show up, including the shy inner voice of the soul, we need to create safe and caring spaces at work. We must learn to discern and be mindful of the subtle ways our words and actions undermine safety and trust in a community of colleagues.

Then come the four immeasurables and awakening mind; then you are led through the six perfections and conclude with the bodhisattva stages, buddhahood and buddha activity.

The only thing we can really control or shape is our interior response: how we show up when disruption hits. Do we freeze and hold on to existing patterns (muddle through)? Do we close down and revert to old, instinctual behaviors (move back)? Or do we open up and lean in to what wants to emerge (move forward)?

While it has been a common practice for social scientists and management scholars to borrow their methods and paradigms from natural sciences such as physics, I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced methodology for social sciences that integrates science (third-person view), social transfo