From an Evolutionary-Teal perspective, the right question is not: how can everyone have equal power? It is rather: how can everyone be powerful? Power is not viewed as a zero-sum game, where the power I have is necessarily power taken away from you.

Another, less drastic, avenue is to invite everyone in the organization to design the future of the organization together. Get the group to determine what new structure makes most sense to replace the pyramid and what new practices will be introduced (for example, the advice process, transparent information, and peer-based evaluation). The more peo

Because there is no hierarchy of bosses over subordinates, space becomes available for other natural and spontaneous hierarchies to spring up—fluid hierarchies of recognition, influence, and skill (sometimes referred to as “actualization hierarchies” in place of traditional “dominator hierarchies”).

This is usually referred to as “complexity” or “chaos theory” (the Teal equivalent to Orange’s Newtonian science).