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1. Shifting
Consciousness
Andrea Provaglio
Agile Enterprise Coach
@andreaprovaglio

2. Nice Meeting You
I work with leaders, managers
and teams in intellect-based
organizations. I help them rethink
their organizational dynamics,
mindset, processes and practices,
so that they can do business
effectively in the 21st century.

3. Culture and Structure in Organizations
Values, principles and behaviors that contribute to the
unique social and psychological environment of an
organization.
How an organization is organized. Roles, authority, task
allocation, salary, processes, decision-making, policies,
responsibilities, etc.

4. A Chicken-and-Egg Debate
Culture follows Structure!Structure follows Culture!

5. Consciousness Creates Reality
The “set of lenses” through which we
perceive (and therefore act in) the world

6. Evolutionary Organizational Development
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7. Before We Continue, Remember…
Is Not

8. Red Organizations
Pack of wolves, impulsive, fear is the
glue.
Examples:
•Street Gangs
•Tribal Militia
Key Breakthroughs:
•Command and Authority
•Division of Labor

9. Amber Organizations
Army, highly formal roles, stability,
repetition of the past, stick.
Examples:
•Most churches
•Public school systems
•Most govt. agencies
Key Breakthroughs:
•Hierarchies
•Processes

10. Orange Organizations
Machine, competition, profit, rewards,
management by objectives, carrot.
Examples:
•Multinational companies
•Charter Schools
Key Breakthroughs:
•Innovation
•Accountability
•Meritocracy

11. Green Organizations
Family, relationships drill hierarchy,
motivation from empowerment, values.
Examples:
•Strong Culture-driven organizations
Key Breakthroughs:
•Empowerment
•Values-driven Culture
•Multiple Stakeholders Model

12. No Organization Is Mono-color
Different paradigms coexist,
usually one is dominant.

13. No Paradigm is Good or Bad
-Every paradigm includes and transcends
the previous
-Each stage is well adapted to certain
contexts, none is inherently good or bad

14. Teal Organizations
Living system?
Key Breakthroughs:
• Self-management
• Wholeness
• Evolutionary Purpose
Characteristics:
• Loosening of own ego
• Decision-making based on inner (moral)
compass

15. Google’s Project Aristotle
(Two-year study on 180 teams)
Factors of most
successful
teams
Clarity of goal
and structure
Dependability
Personal
Meaning
Larger
Impact
Psychological
Safety

16. Psychologically Safe If Not Afraid To…
Be Yourself Take Risks
Make Mistakes Raise Problems
Ask Questions Disagree

17. What Color is Agile, Mainly?
Individuals and
Interactions
Processes
and Tools
over
Responding
to Change
Following a
Plan
over
Working
Software
Comprehensive
Documentation
over
Customer
Collaboration
Contract
Negotiation
over
T G O A
A
R A
A
OT
T G
OT
PRODUCT
STAKEHOLDERS

18. You Can Quote Me On This
“Adopting Agile without the
corresponding shift in
consciousness is mostly
pointless.”
-- @andreaprovaglio

19. Consciousness and Leadership
“What determines which stage an organization
operates from? It is the stage through which its
leadership tends to look at the world. […]
This means that an organization cannot evolve
beyond its leadership’s stage of development.”
-- from “Reinventing Organizations”

20. Management and Leadership
Management is about manipulating
resources to get a known job done
Leadership is about creating change
you believe in
Quotes from “Tribes” by Seth Godin
Influence
Managers have employees
Authority
Leaders have followers
Accountability

21. Forces for Organizational Change
Need to be aligned, though
Management
Leadership
Management and Leadership
forces don’t necessarily
coincide with the same person

22. Teal and Agile Leaders
Everyone leads, everyone follows
from time to time
Agile Leaders invites others to take
leadership, contextually
Teal Leaders create orgs that don’t
need hierarchies or consensus to
operate effectively and efficiently
They develop practices inviting to
reclaim one’s inner wholeness
They invite to listen and understand
what purpose the organization
wants to serve
They manifest Servant Leadership to
the organization (their purpose)

23. Practices for a Consciousness Shift
Organizational
gardening
Self-awareness
Insight
concentration
Ethics
Actions
Words
HeuristicsSystemic Mindset
Awareness
Interactions
Intent
© Andrea Provaglio

24. The Organizational Gardening Metaphor
Seeds
Don’t like Like

25. Organizational Gardening
Undesirable Desirable
ManifestedUnmanifested
time dimension
REDUCE SUPPORT
PREVENT PROMOTE
© Andrea Provaglio

26. Let’s Wrap It Up
Although a small minority, these new organizations
are the ones that brilliantly STAND OUT.
Modern, high-performance organizations are based
on a specific type of (Teal?) consciousness
An organization can only evolve up to the stage of
consciousness of its leaderships

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