As Frederick Laloux found from his researches published in his latest book ‚Reinventing Organizations’, the current trend in organizations is to move from a centrally run organization to empowering local groups in teaching them how to do and to make them autonomous.
The success of those companies relies on self-management, wholeness and evolutionary purpose, he said.
From this emerges a new role for the leaders: Listening. Listening to where the organization wants to go.
Most companies are currently organized around moving the entire team globally towards a specific target that was defined and set as a goal by a small group of decision makers usually at the top of the hierarchy.
The captain of the ship is giving directions and bringing the ship towards the destination as per goal and fixed strategy.
Frederick Laloux studies show that the trend has now started to consider an organization as an entire being with individual creative spark.
Those companies creating the new trend have per se no strategy, but their success lies in having a strong intend where to go, all following meaning and purpose, always listening to where the people in the organization want to go and to the underlying trend.

What are you currently listening to?
Active listening is about listening without pre-set ideas, without judgments, without a plan to what is being said and what is being not said.
This is a powerful skill which brings more understanding among people, teams and within organizations. Most importantly, it is an extremely rewarding process towards creativity and innovation.

Listen. Listen. Listen.

What are you listening to?
Which trends are emerging?

Fabienne Cuisinier