Frederic Laloux’s monumentally popular book Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness launched the Teal Organization movement worldwide, as well as being the inspiration for creating Enlivening Edge.
According to the book’s website it has sold way over 800,000 copies and is considered by many to be the most influential management book of its decade. A testimony to its influence is not only the many consultants, groups, organizations “going Teal,” and conferences, worldwide, but its translation into at least 19 languages.
Enlivening Edge Magazine is fortunate to be able to bring you the inside, personal stories of many of these translation projects. Here are the stories we’ve shared so far.
And we’re working toward the story of the Finnish translation. Do you know any of the other language translation stories for this book? Contact us about creating an article.
Here are the languages included in the articles below: Japanese Arabic Polish Hungarian Spanish Chinese (and Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian, and Korean) French Russian Dutch German Danish
Here is an overview of the first twelve translations.
We’ve shared two articles about the Japanese translation and how it became so popular in Japan.
Here is the second Japanese story:
If you want to know the power of a group, get inspired by this story of the Arabic translation.
And a second article on the Arabic translation.
How did Laloux’s book become available in Polish?
Hungarian folks not only translated the book, they created a wiki of it, in Hungarian.
How could the book not be available in Spanish? This is another inspiring story of collaboration
And of course a wiki of the book in Spanish!
This article announces not only Chinese, but Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian, Korean translations
As a bonus, here is one of Enlivening Edge Magazine’s several articles about Reinventing Organizations in China. Don’t take their existence lightly.
The French translation has a story, too.
And Laloux’s Insights for the Journey videos have also been translated into French.
Yes, there is a Russian translation and it is being used in Russia!
Dutch, German, and Danish were among the early translated versions available.
Enjoy these stories which are so inspiring, and let us know of any others!
