October 10: 10th Anniversary Party for Reinventing Organizations Book

By Lia Aurami for Enlivening Edge Magazine, with Frederic Laloux, Lisa Gill and others, as indicated

Note from Enlivening Edge Magazine Editor: I can’t imagine a more fitting capstone article for Enlivening Edge Magazine becoming Enlivening Edge Magazine Library. (See our Editorial, to be published September 28) for an explanation.)

The Reinventing Organizations book was the catalyst, through George Pór, for the creation of Enlivening Edge over nine years ago, and we’ve had a special mutually supportive relationship to the “Teal movement” all along. Enlivening Edge is one of the resources for readers mentioned in the book. The party will include a summary of this relationship.

Lisa Gill, one of the party organizers, was one of the first Partners creating Enlivening Edge in its early months. Since then she’s published as Leadermorphosis nearly 100 podcasts on organizations reinventing themselves, and become a resource herself, for the movement.

This is the website announcement for the party and place to register (free) for it:

This year is the 10-year anniversary of Reinventing Organizations. Over the last decade, the book has inspired thousands of organizations across the world to take a radical leap and adopt a whole different set of management principles and practices. It’s sold over 1 million copies and been translated into numerous languages.

We would like to mark this special occasion by inviting everyone who has been touched by the book to celebrate together.

• Has your organization adopted teal principles or practices?
• Have you shared the book with others or even started a book club?
• Are you one of the people who translated the book into another language?
• Did you start a whole new community or initiative as a result of reading the book?
• Did you contribute to one of the many teal-inspired initiatives such as the Reinventing Organizations Wiki, Enlivening Edge or Teal Around the World?
• Has the book changed the course of your life in some way?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, please join us!

What to expect

An online interactive event with a mix of moments of celebration and fun, moments that go deeper, and moments of people sharing how Reinventing Organizations has touched them. The event will also include a live conversation with Frederic himself as he reflects on this milestone.

It’s the perfect opportunity for this global community to come together, connect, celebrate, and co-sense what we might wish for the next ten years in the new ways of working movement.

Joining information

Nearer the event we’ll share with you the Zoom link to join. For anyone who isn’t able to participate in the interactive elements (for example, in breakout rooms), we’ll also have a livestream link you can follow on YouTube.

In-person events

We know that many of you are keen to organize local events in your community to coincide with our virtual celebrations. Maybe you want to celebrate in person after joining the online event, or you aren’t able to make the online event but still want to celebrate!

We’ve created a short Google form to provide you with some important guidelines for organizing any in-person events and also to help us keep track of how many parties are happening around the world. It will be really fun to see where on the globe people are congregating!

Fill out the Reinventing Organizations in-person events tracker form here.
(The deadline to fill out the event tracker form is the 26th of September.)

This is Frederic Laloux’s LinkedIn post about the party:

Here is Lisa Gill’s recent LinkedIn post about the party, with over 1000 people registered so far.

Here is Lisa Gill’s Leadermorphosis podcast video about the party which will livestream here on October 10.