Originally published on Reinventing Organizations
Latest in Frederic Laloux’s Insights For The Journey series
Self-management requires that colleagues have a shared sense of purpose and vision.
You might need to spend some time clarifying the purpose and vision before you really get going – at the overall level, and at the level of every team.
He will also briefly touch on the phenomenon of lofty but useless purposes. And how useful it can be to use polarities to help self-managing colleagues to deal with trade-offs.
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I’m pleased to see this video on purpose. I’ve been noticing that the community of Reinventing Organizations seems to have been enchanted with self-management. I rarely see anything about purpose and wholeness, yet they are necessary companions for a workable teal system. Thanks, Frederic.
Oh for sure, Kim, totally with you on that!. We at EE are quite vociferous about the importance of evolutionary purpose and wholeness, and I agree most RO-related discussions around the world seem to focus more on the structural aspect, of self-management.
In our tag cloud EP and Wholeness are two of the most-represented in number of articles with those tags.
https://enliveningedge.org/tag/evolutionary-purpose/
https://enliveningedge.org/tag/wholeness/