Teal vs Hierarchy

Thursday, 30th July 2026 from 12:30-1:15pm at The Track

Teal vs Hierarchy

“Transforming Modern Business Models by Understanding Human Behaviour”

A Bite Size Lunch & Learn Session at The Track

on Thursday, 30th JULY 3026 from 12.30 - 1.15pm

Key Learning Points

  • The Paradigm Shift
  • Decentralised Self-Management
  • Cultivating Wholeness
  • Following an Evolutionary Purpose
  • Local Case Study - The RAFA 381 Club on Waterloo Square

 

Further Notes

  1. The Paradigm Shift (Teal vs. Hierarchy): The session introduces Frederic Laloux’s "Teal" model, which moves away from traditional, top-down corporate machines and instead treats organisations like adaptable, living ecosystems.
  2. Decentralised Self-Management: Attendees will explore how teams can operate efficiently through peer-to-peer relationships and shared decision-making, removing the need for rigid boss-subordinate hierarchies.
  3. Cultivating Wholeness: The discussion will highlight how Teal organisations foster high trust and psychological safety, encouraging people to drop their "professional masks" and bring their full, authentic selves to work.
  4. Following an Evolutionary Purpose: Instead of forcing artificial five-year growth targets, Teal structures focus on listening and adapting to what the organisation naturally needs to become over time.
  5. Local Application (The 381 Club): Using Bognor Regis’s own The 381 Club as a real-world benchmark, the session will analyse how its community-driven, low-bureaucracy model successfully brings these three Teal breakthroughs to life locally.

Frederic Laloux's Reinventing Organizations is considered by many to be the most influential management book of the last decade. It has inspired thousands of organizations throughout the world to take a radical leap and adopt a whole different set of management principles and practices. 

​It's also a word-of-mouth phenomenon, propelled by a deeply caring and generous community of readers. Self-published with no PR, it has sold over 1 million copies and has been translated in numerous languages.

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