My Session at the #arbeiten40 Barcamp

1. REINVENTING ORGANIZATIONS
Workshop Session für konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen
zum Organisationsdesign
Jörn Hendrik, @jormason
03.06.2015, Berlin
#arbeiten40

2. The Book
facebook.com/frederic.laloux.public

3. History of organization development
100.000
years ago
50.000
years ago
Now
Infrared
Red
Amber
Orange
Green
Teal
Magenta

4. Red Organizations
Constant exercise of power by
chief to keep employees in line.
Fear is the glue of the
organization.
Highly reactive, short term focus.
Thrives in chaotic environment
Current Examples:
(some) Startups
Mafia
Street Gangs
Terror Organizations
Picture Credits: Flickr User howl: flic.kr/p/5BU6Rn

5. Amber Organizations
Highly formal roles within a
hierarchical pyramid.
Top down command and control
(what and how).
Stability valued above all through
rigorous processes.
Future is repetition of the past.
Current Examples:
Catholic Church
Military
Governmental Organizations
Public School System
Picture Credits: Flickr User UK Ministry of Defense: flic.kr/p/bjm6L2

6. Orange Organizations
Goal is to beat the competition;
achieve profit and growth.
Innovation is the key to staying
ahead.
Management by objectives
Command and control on what, freedom on
the how
Current Examples:
Fortune 100
DAX Unternehmen
Multinational companies
Charter Schools
Picture Credits: markdraws.deviantart.com

7. Green Organizations
Focus on culture and
empowerment
Within the class pyramid structure
Achievements of
extraordinary employee
motivation
Current Examples:
Culture Driven Organizations
NGO’s
Southwest Airlines, Ben & Jerrys, Semco

8. Teal Organizations
No one is the boss of anyone
else.
Hierarchy is not powerful
enough to face complexity:
Examples: global economy, human central
nervous system (CNS).
If you take your purpose
seriously there is no competitor
by definition.
Current Examples:
Network Organizations (Burtzoorg, ESBZ,
Zappos, A.W. Gore, Automattic)
Picture Credits: Devin Powers: http://bit.ly/1QKLu6S

9. Overview
Explanation
Current
Examples
Key
breakthroughs
Guiding
metaphor
RED
Organizations
Constant exercise of power by chief to keep troops in
line. Fear is the glue of the organization. Highly reactive,
short term focus. Thrives in chaotic environment
•Mafia
•Street Gangs
•Terror Organizations
•Division of Labour
•Command authority
Wolf Pack
AMBER
organizations
Highly formal roles within a hierarchical pyramid. Top
down command and control (what and how). Stability
valued above all through rigorous processes. Future is
repetition of the past.
•Catholic Church
•Military
•Governmental
Organizations
•Public School System
•Formal roles (stable and
scalable hierarchy)
•Processes (long term
perspectives)
ORANGE
organizations
Goal is to beat the competition; achieve profit and
growth. Innovation is the key to staying ahead.
Management by objectives (command and control on
what; freedom on the how)
•Multinational
companies
•Charter Schools
•Innovation
•Accountability
•Meritocracy
Machine
GREEN
organizations
Within the class pyramid structure, focus on culture and
empowerment to achieve extraordinary employee
motivation
•Culture Driven
Organizations (NGO’s,
Southwest Airlines, Ben
& Jerrys, Semco)
•Empowerment
•Values-driven culture
•Stakeholder model
Family
TEAL
organizations
No one is the boss of anyone else. Hierarchy is not
powerful enough to face complexity, e.g. global
economy, human muscle brain (cells). If you take your
purpose seriously there is no competitor by definition
•Network Organizations
(Burtzoorg, ESBZ,
Zappos, Semco, A.W.
Gore, Automattic)
•Self Management
•Wholeness
•evolutionary Purpose
Network

10. How to change?

11. Self Management
No one is the boss of anyone else. Because hierarchical
organizations are not powerful enough to face the
complexity, e.g.global economy, anymore.
Rather than a power hierarchy teal organizations work
like a natural network
Advice Process: One has to get advice from an expert.
One has to talk to people who will be affected by the
decision

12. Wholeness
In most organizations we are pushed to wear a mask.
We are so used to wearing it, that we almost forgot
about it.
We are showing our Ego (only the rational part of it),
but not our deeper feelings.
Teal organizations are integrating different views and
different opinions, because the truth has more facets
than just one.

13. Evolutionary Purpose
If you take purpose seriously, there is no competition.
Because every organization aiming for the same
purpose is an ally.
If a company vision is aligned with the strategy – and
when it’s continuously adapted it becomes stronger and
stronger.
Purpose is finding a companies why and can’t be simply
executed. Execution only works when you think about
your company as a machine like in orange
organizations.

14. How to change?
1.Self-management
No one is the boss of anyone else.
Work like a natural network.
Advice Process: Talk to experts and talk to people who will be affected by the decision.
2.Wholeness
Accept the human being behind the employee.
Integrate different views and different opinions.
The truth has more facets than just one.
1.Evolutionary Purpose
Where is purpose, there is no competition. Every organization aiming for the same purpose is an ally.
If a company vision is aligned and continuously adapted it becomes stronger and stronger.
Purpose is finding a companies why and can’t be simply executed.

15. Contact:
+49 (0) 171 369 5336
jh@ffluid.de
@jormason
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