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The “intervenor’s” role is meant to be temporary, but gradually the people with the problem become dependent on the intervention, and never…

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What if we could create organizational structures and practices that didn’t need empowerment because, by design, everybody was powerful and no one powerless? This is the first major breakthrough of Teal Organizations: transcending the age-old problem of power inequality through structures and practices where no one holds power over anyone else, and

Does your structure encourage the decentralization of decision making to the level of direct customer contact? Does it facilitate the use of multidiscipline teams to solve customer problems? Does it force continual simplification and focus?

When legacy institutions are beyond saving, build something better. And bury them.

Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries.

teams are still not really in charge of what they are building; their authority is limited to how to build whatever they are assigned.

Brian Robertson, the founder of Holacracy, sometimes uses another set of archetypes to talk about the power of self-management to shift relationships to a healthier level—helping us to move from Persecutor, Rescuer, Victim, to Challenger, Coach, Creator.