Storm Beach

This book aspires to an emergence of a new organisational model. More broadly and more boldly the next stage in human evolution. New on the one hand, but rooted to the old as the author declares how this corresponds to Maslow‘s “self-actualizing” level. Using the language of colour (a Teal organisation), but it has been variously labelled authentic and integral. An approach that involves the taming of our ego and searching for more authentic, more wholesome ways of being.

Non-ordinary states of consciousness are explored – meditative states, contemplative states, visionary experiences, flow and peak experiences. Firstly, in order to answer our questions and provide clues. Secondly, whilst these states are available at any stage of consciousness. From Teal onward, people often take on regular practices to deepen their experience in these states and access the full spectrum of human experience.

Stiving for wholeness and self-management I am left with one question and a cautionary measure. Can strategy really emerge organically from collective intelligence? Because if it can that means that change is no longer a relevant topic as organisations constantly adapt from within. As for the watch out I’ll leave that with Laloux, “Crashing through the woods is how we have learned to be together in organizations. All it takes to scare the soul away is to make a sarcastic comment or to roll the eyes in a meeting.”