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Are you fed up with soulless organizations with office politics and people defending their turfs? It doesn’t have to be like that. There’s a growing number of organizations switching from stultifying hierarchies to self-management, committing to an evolutionary purpose, and creating enlivened workplaces that we can truly bring our whole selves to – and see them flourish.

The aim of the Enlivening Edge newsletter and website is to be a meeting place for the growing international movement of those ‘next-stage’ organizations. Though we have launched Enlivening Edge, it doesn’t belong to us. It will grow with the movement, and we hope that with every subsequent issue it will become more and more “owned” by you all. See how you can get involved.

Latest News

In our News section, you can read how ‘next-stage’’ practices are rapidly spreading around the globe and find out about the new online community created for the ‘everyday heroes’ who are already reinventing their organizations – as well as all those who would like to.

We also investigate how Holacracy – a novel form of self-management used by hundreds of ’next-stage’ organizations working without bosses – has taken the decision to embrace a more open approach: ‘Holacracy makes the leap to open source – and zaps the ‘painful’ legalese’.

Get in touch with the Enlivening Edge team if you’d like to share a news story, an event report, or other content relevant to our readers.

An interview with Frederic Laloux

Author Frederic Laloux shares his own inner and outer personal journey from being a McKinsey consultant to researching and writing his ground-breaking and inspiring book of 12 case studies, Reinventing Organizations – A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness.

Buffer's Shift

Social media management firm Buffer share news about their ‘soulful revolution’, as they enjoy the excitement of a rewarding shift to self-management.

Next-Stage Wiki

Over 100 enthusiastic volunteers came together recently to create a collaboratively edited new wiki on structures and practices that organizations need to make the transformation.

Zappos Vibes

We follow the growing media frenzy over leading online retailer Zappos’ brave decision to get rid of managers and free their staff’s creativity.

Soulful workshop

A report from George Pór’s workshop in Montreal – a participatory approach to evoking the collective intelligence that can birth ‘Teal’ organizations.

Morning Star

Long-established tomato processor Morning Star found they could pay their staff much more than the industry average – as they didn’t have managers to pay.

Holacracy Spreads

From Blinkist and Undercurrent to the Office of the Chief Information Officer in Washington State, interest and/or application of self-management structure Holacracy is growing.

CEOs should experiment

A leading figure in the UK’s Further Education sector, Lynne Sedgmore CBE, shares her experience of developing a successful ‘next-stage’ organization – and calls on other Chief Executives “to begin experimenting with new forms of non-hierarchical leadership and the flowering and contribution and wholeness of everyone involved throughout their organization”.

Tracking our Evolutionary Journey

Enlivening Edge’s founder and co-editor uses his first column to track the fascinating phase of the evolutionary journey in which human systems and organizations find themselves nowadays. Organizations are now going 'Teal’, to use Ken Wilber’s phrase. George also looks at the birth of a new collective sensing organ, Enlivening Edge.

Could Teal be the new Green?

Dirk Propfe, Jenna McNeil and Oskar Schwarzin have just completed a Master’s Programme in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability. Our Research section is republishing excerpts from their groundbreaking thesis on “Teal Organisations and Strategic Sustainable Development: A promising approach to transition businesses towards sustainability”, originally posted by Future Considerations.

Next-Stage Buzz

The Teal Buzz section has for you snippets from cyberspace, relevant to the ecosystem of next-stage initiatives In this issue you will find news and conversations from the from the ResponsiveOrg community on Facebook, the Reinventing Organizations community on Discourse, and from the tweetstreams.

Dates for your Diary

There are much more events happening in the broader organizational transformation scene. Send information about your upcoming events.

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