Teal organizations
Laloux's stage model of organizations, in which self-management is the next evolutionary step.
Frederic Laloux, Reinventing Organizations
2014
Frederic Laloux published Reinventing Organizations in 2014. It sorts organizations into color-coded stages of consciousness, with Teal at the top: self-management, wholeness, and evolutionary purpose. Buurtzorg, Morning Star, and Patagonia appear as exemplars.
The canvas cites it as a belief system rather than evidence. The stage model is not falsifiable, and the exemplars were selected because they fit. It matters here because it supplied the vocabulary that many self-management adoptions were sold with, and the preconditions those adoptions skipped.
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