Evolutionary Organisations Bringing the Organisational M achine to Life Terrence Bishop Based on the book Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux
Who is T errence Bishop? • • M y Purpose – to serve Self-taught businessman, traveller, rich, then not, 3 evolution, or the emergence failed marriages, then not, of more freedom, love and student of life, public beauty in the world. speaker, writer and lover, Because I can. evolutionary advocate. Today, a guy excited about the possibility of a vibrant future for CNVC and the global community of non-violent language specialists. 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 2
What do I want? • T o bequeath to future generations a world in which they can be physically healthy. • T o live in a world that is awake enough to not feed me poisons as food or medicine, or deny my freedom of thought or expression. • T o reveal and nourish freedom, love and beauty in my world. • Today: to share a vision of the powerful potential of an embrace by CNVC and RO. 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 3
What Problem? 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 4
Change is Happening • New Consciousness is Already Emerging* • New ways of seeing, sensing and responding to dynamic environments – Changing markets, regulatory environments, staff demands, consumer demands, executive needs • New values, new business models, new language • Case studies reveal solid patterns of change – New organisational structures – Supported by new business processes – Inspiring new forms of work and livelihood 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 5
Is the ‘New Consciousness’ Real? • Evolutionary emergence is the one constant • The way we are is not how we once were • In the future, modern ways will be seen as primitive 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 6
About Developmental M odels • All models can be used as tools or weapons, depending on the intent of the practitioner – T ools that enable discernment and skilful action. – Weapons used to judge and justify oppression. • Some models seek to justify violence, some seek to end it by understanding it then choosing to not do it – “ to understand everything is to forgive everything” * • Without a model, without understanding or a vague sense of how cause and effect flow, we are lost. • Like choosing words to convey an idea, choose models that serve your efforts to fulfil your purpose. 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 7
Ken Wilber’s Integral M odel • Does not claim to be ‘the truth’, or that more is better, or that things should be a certain way • A collection of observations on the nature of our human experience that seem to be true for everyone who has a look for themselves • In my life, the most useful of all tools in my quest to know myself and serve my world. 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 8
Integral Essentials • Y ou have an inner world and an outer one, and you are both alone and in relationship with your world… 4 aspects of existence, 4 domains of truth, 4 ways to see. • Everything evolves – matter (from hot gas to bio-ready planets) , life (from plants to complex animals) , mind (from toddler to sage) , relationships (from needy to loving) , societies (tribal to technological) . • Y ou have at least 3 major sates you transition between – waking, dreaming and deep sleep. Other states include happy, sad, day dreaming, busy, withdrawn, supportive, etc. • Y ou can be skilled (or not) in dozens of different ways: affect regulation, cognition, language, music, spiritual, kinaesthetic, values, aesthetic (art and beauty), etc. • Y ou have preferences that orient you to choose as you do – e.g. right now, you choose what you perceive based on what you value from your experience • Integral theory does not argue better or worse, right or wrong, and an integral lens on life does suggest that freedom and love are more pleasurable than bondage and fear. I agree. I choose that. 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 9
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RED ORGANIZATIONS Street gangs M afias M ercenary armies Like a Wolf Pack: Living in a dangerous world Group control through fear T oughest as leader 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 11
RED BREAKTHROUGHS 1. Invention of leadership 2. Enables group focus Red Benefits: Large task achievement Survival through bonding Unhealthy Red: Domination hierarchies Bullying and manipulation Chronically fearful 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 12
AM BER ORGANIZATIONS Catholic church Armies Government agencies Public school systems Like an Army: Rigid rules Impersonal roles Leadership by appointment 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 13
AM BER BREAKTHROUGHS 1. Formal hierarchies 2. Replicable processes Amber benefits: Enables large organisations Persistent goals through time Unhealthy Amber: Abuse of power Workers as ‘slaves’ Difficult to adapt and change 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 14
ORANGE ORGANIZATIONS M ultinational organisations - M cDonalds, Coke, T oyota Airlines, large mining Global M oney and Banking Like a M achine: Assembly of defined, discreet functions Predictable and controllable Leadership based on effectiveness 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 15
ORANGE BREAKTHROUGHS 1. Innovation 2. Accountability 3. M eritocracy Orange Benefits: Technology Augmented senses Extended capabilities Unhealthy Orange: Healthy orange includes Humans as machines and upgrades amber Progress mania rules, roles and leadership Arrogance of success 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 16
Notice… • With each new worldview, the way everything is done differently • Each new emergence involves rethinking every aspect of our ‘way of doing things’… – beliefs about why and what we are doing – purpose, language, metaphors, myths – organisational model, task and process structures – goals and success measurement 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 17
GREEN ORGANIZATIONS Starbucks Southwest Airlines Zappos.com (* ) Ben & Jerry’s Like a Family: Relationships matter M inimal hierarchy Happiness for everyone 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 18
GREEN BREAKTHROUGHS 1. Values-driven culture 2. Empowerment 3. Stakeholder model Green Benefits: Inclusive and holistic Sensitive and empathic 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 19
Unhealthy Green: • Against all forms of hierarchy. • Deconstructs leadership. • Vulnerable to values gridlock. The green worldview is challenged to reconcile innovation and leadership Healthy green includes with the need to be and upgrades orange inclusive and sensitive innovation, leadership and systems skills 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 20
Green Polarities Constructive Emergence Extreme Expression • • Challenges dominator Rejects all leadership. systems and hierarchies. • Rebels against all systems. • Includes individual views in • Lets personal agenda group processes. disrupt group processes. • Uses praise to support • Defensive against criticism. growth. • Prone to bullying when • Skilled in taking diverse confronted by perceived perspectives to argue for obstruction to what is best. what is best. 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 21
What’s next? • Study by Frederic Laloux • Case studies involving 30 organizations – From a few hundred to several thousand staff – Engineering, retail, health care, mental health, schools, media, food processing, e-commerce, + – Short and long value chains • Reveals new organizational model that offers major breakthroughs in efficiency, staff and client satisfaction and market performance 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 22
Evolutionary TEAL ORGANIZATIONS Buurtzorg M orning Star Patagonia +++ 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 23
TEAL-EVOLUTIONARY Buurtzorg M orningstar Patagonia Like a Living System: Evolutionary growth Internally governed adaptation to change Sense and respond relationship with environment 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 24
Evolutionary TEAL BREAKTHROUGHS 1. Evolutionary Purpose 2. Self Responsibility 3. Wholeness All 3 combine to remove the need to use subtle violence to bring order to group endeavours 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 25
T eal Breakthroughs Evolutionary Purpose Self M anagement Wholeness Innovation Values-driven culture Accountability Empowerment M eritocracy Stakeholder model Enables group focus Replicable processes Invention of leadership Formal hierarchies 6/ 09/ 2015 Evolutionary Business - T errence Bishop 26
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