Cool resources for stage turquoise organizations

[Justin Evans]

I'm lately obsessed about stage turquoise organizations and wanted to share some stuff. (I'm aware there's a stage turquoise mega thread, but I wanted to narrow it down to organizations specifically. I hope that's okay.)

Im paraphrasing so I could be wrong. One of its features includes decentralized interconnected authorities. Think of circles of teams that act like departments, but they aren't rigid hierarchies. In these individual / team bubbles, roles change all the time depending on the org's mission statement and goals) and they manage themselves. And, these bubbles communicate and help each other whenever they need to as well. Information has to be super fluid and accessible, including perspectives from your whole team.

I've wondered how do even build a foundation that makes self-managing and self-teaching a possibility? I saw this video today about labeling and organizing stuff, and it's genius, it seems like a really cool start of a foundation. Turns out labeling is literally like mindfulness labeling for your organization. Labeling leads to awareness and insights. Labeling your stuff can help your teammates proactively do tasks on their own, learn information, or self-organize even if you don't know anyone, if there's a language barrier, or a difference in technical expertise.

 

[Justin Evans]

Here's another example of self-organizing and labeling. For context, Foxhole is a world war 2 style game where thousands of players fight in two factions for weeks. There's little to no private ownership of anything in the game.

Since the scale of wars are huge, most of your contributions are like a drop in the bucket, so you tend to focus on one or two roles. The satisfaction comes from doing your part rather than the outcome.

What I like about this container yard example, players join and leave the game whenever they want and contribute to the yard. They self-organize with signs, people make stuff for the yard, and random people pick it up for deliveries for the front line. It's all public ownership.

Sure it's just a game. But, it's still cool to learn from it. Because people don't take things as seriously as the real world, so it's easier for people to experiment with stage turquoise style organizations even if they aren't aware of it.