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A different operating system for work.
away is being built as a Teal organisation, where people have the autonomy to make decisions, the safety to be themselves, and the responsibility to help the organisation evolve.
Teal is not the absence of structure. It is a different kind of structure: one built around trust, clarity and distributed ownership.
Teal way
away is being built as a Teal organisation — where people have the autonomy to make decisions, the safety to be themselves, and the responsibility to help the organisation evolve.
Red
Power & fear. The chief decides.
Amber
Rigid hierarchy. Rules over people.
Orange
Targets & competition. Manage by numbers.
Green
Culture & consensus. People first, slowly.
The five organisational paradigms from Frédéric Laloux’s Reinventing Organizations, the framework away builds on.
Trust people closest to the work, and let the organisation evolve.
Instead of concentrating every decision at the top, people are trusted to take ownership, seek advice and act. The organisation becomes more responsive, transparent and capable of evolving through the people working within it. It rests on three foundations:
Self-management
Authority is distributed across clearly defined roles instead of a managerial hierarchy. People seek advice rather than permission, and own their decisions.
Wholeness
You shouldn't have to become a different person at work. Honesty, care and vulnerability belong inside the organisation. People are humans, not resources.
Evolutionary purpose
The organisation listens to its people, customers and environment, and is allowed to discover what it wants to become rather than following a fixed plan.
Teal is
- Distributed authority with clear ownership
- Seeking advice before acting
- Transparency and accountability
- A practice that keeps evolving
Teal is not
- No authority, or everyone deciding everything
- Waiting for unanimous consensus
- Complete freedom without consequences
- A fixed management formula
Learn Teal with us.
Six short films documenting what we understand about Teal, how it changes the way organisations operate, and what happens when we practise it ourselves.