There is no greater indicator that a better future is possible than the breadth and variety of differently-named and differently-framed initiatives and movements aimed at organizational transformation—all of which share many values and visions in common. They are present in all parts of the world.
As the famous saying goes, the future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed. It is clearly being distributed through these and many other initiatives bubbling up and percolating through our organizational lives.
Here, in the “Movements” of Enlivening Edge Magazine Library, you find a collection of stories worth perusing from the movements for organizational evolution listed below.
We are not listing here all consultancies, process facilitators or schools of thought contributing to the shift, only some of the movements our articles have mentioned that are focused on the goal of organizational renewal.
We’re defining “movement” as a significantly large group of people, with a name, actively working toward a particular social change.
- Agile
- B Corps
- Buurtzorg as a movement
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
- Democratic Workplaces
- Holacracy
- Integral City
- Integrative Law and Teal Law
- Liberated Company
- Management 3.0
- ResponsiveOrg
- Social Business
- Sociocracy
- Teal movement (see also Reinventing Organizations movement)
- U.Labs
These initiatives, groups, and models might not yet be large enough to be called a “movement” but they are growing significantly, and contributing to social change.
- Commons Organizations
- Communities of Practice
- Corporate Rebels movement
- Deliberately Developmental Organization
- Distributed Collaborative Organizations
- Distributed Cooperative Organizations
- Education-related movements
- For-Purpose Organizations
- Gig Economy
- Health and Social Care-related movements
- Horizontal Management
- Learning Organizations
- Platform Economy and Platform Co-Ops