Recent and irreversible flux in the organizational environment has provided irrefutable evidence that future of organizations is teal (Laloux, 2015). In the evolutionary dynamic systems, teal stage constitutes a significant milestone in the development of humans and organizations beyond the Maslow’s self-actualization. More interestingly, praising teal stage confirms the open-endedness of humans and organizations that Beck and Cowan (1996) described under spiral symbolism as an expansive, continuous, and dynamic and evolutionary development of consciousness. This leads to significant shifts in the understanding of organizational systems and humans inside them. On the one hand, this view unsealed human and organizational development beyond self-actualization.
This resulted in rethinking of organizations postulating that teal is the future of both organizations and management. Within the assumption that humans and organizations have unlimited yet underexploited capabilities, reinventing organizations gains transformative shifts from negative to positive dimensions in the natural growth process of living systems. Rather than pursuing negative structures driven by selfish and destructive culture of administrative hierarchies and their survival competitive fights, teal stage instills in organizations and the humans inside the ability to become force for good for all by embarking on integrative and harmonizing perspective of global humanity and continuous renewal. On the other hand, the universality of this process reconciles the dualistic view of the world as evolving from either creation or evolution.
Under this community of practice, participants explore the profound meaning of this unfolding development beyond self-actualization, the required adaptation of human and organizational capabilities to thrive in this new paradigm, and the resulting urgency for cooperation ecosystems that support management research and practice as holistic vehicle for reconciled faith and science, decisive actions and emotional conviction, and heart and brain as inseparable dimensions of humans and human-based systems. Furthermore, the community tries to dive deep into this paradigm shift as a unifying force of living systems’ levels from biological, psychological, to sociological ones.
Dr. Lambert Ciza