Presentation of Ilja Alexander Yacine on The Evolution of Organizations - from machine to living being - during the event Futures of Work

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"For the future to meet
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THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONS -
THE ORGANIZATION AS A
LIVING BEING.
presented by
SPEAKER
ILYA ALEXANDER YACINE
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPER & URBAN FUTURIST @ LECOS GMBH

3. The Evolution of Organizations
Alexander Yacine | Team Coach | Organizational Developer | Urban Futurist |
Digitale Werkstatt, Lecos GmbH | Urban Future Network
From machine to living being

4. Everything is so complicated!
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complex

5. Digital
Transformation
Social
Transformation
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Socio-technological progress

6. Digital Innovation
Social Innovation
Two expressions…
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7. …of the same process!
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http://thewisdomeconomy.blogspot.com/2011/08/opportunities-in-chaos.html
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8. Organizations are evolving…
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New organizational models emerge.
Shift from competition to collaboration.
From Ego to Eco: Systemic mindset.

9. Reinventing Organizations
(Frederic Laloux, 2016)
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We‘re around
here…
https://www.kevanlee.com/reinventing-organizations/
Spiral Dynamics
(Claire Graves/ Chris Cowan, Don Beck
1996, 2007)
As complexity rises, our
psycho-socio-cultural-eco-
systems change

10. Teal Organizations
(Frederic Laloux, 2016)
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https://www.susannacarman.com/single-post/2017/08/03/Teal-Is-The-New-Black
Self-Management
Wholeness
Evolutionary Purpose
efficient
decentralized
autonomous.
fluid
competency-based
Holon =
system within systems
within systems…
alive
sense of direction
dynamic steering

11. „If you play the game of
thrones, you win or you die…“
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12. 40
Is this the real life?
Is this just implicit hierarchies?
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d8/7f/47/d87f4769883f4f14adc26d5a0d3973da.jpg

13. „More organizations die
of indigestion than starvation.“
- David Packard
Co-founder of HP
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14. From here…
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15. …to there.
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Transforming values,
transforming structures

17. Mechanistic vs. Organic Models
45
• High specialization
• Silo thinking
• Strict chain of command
• Centralization
• Predict & control - paradigm
• Free flow of information
• Cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams
• Autonomous self-management
• Decentralization
• Purpose-driven navigation

18. 46
Holacracy Sociocracy (3.0)

19. 47
Sociocracy (3.0) Human cell
Holacracy

20. The Organization as a Superorganism
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≙

21. 49
Teeming
(Tamsin Woolley-Barker, 2016)
“I believe humanity’s
radical breakthrough was
combining the political and
problem-solving abilities of
a chimpanzee with the
collaborative teamwork of
an ant society.”

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12 principles of
superorganisms
(Tamsin Woolley-Barker, 2016)
Collective Intelligence
1. Facilitate self-organized networks
2. Aggregate scattered scraps into something greater
3. Cultivate diversity and independence
4. Communicate through open, two-way, always-on conversations
5. Trigger tipping-point decisions with simple rules and feedback
Swarm Creativity
6. Align action around a shared purpose
7. Launch many small parallel experiments
8. Tune social networks to spread or suppress innovation
Distributed Leadership
9. Enable specialized modular teams
10. Distribute leadership to integrate local information with the global
vision
Reciprocity & Sharing
11. Share the work and the wealth, protect collective value
Regenerative Value
12. Build with infinite stuff and regenerate it for compounding wealth

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• Sense-making
• Social Intelligence
• Novel & Adaptive Thinking
• Cross-cultural Competency
• Computational Thinking
• New-media Literacy
• Transdisciplinarity
• Design Mindset
• Cognitive Load Management
• Virtual Collaboration

24. Let’s become “Holobionts”
(organisms of different species that unite to form an
ecological unit)
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Teeming
(Tamsin Woolley-Barker, 2016)
Let our organizations become
superorganisms!
Let’s become “Holobionts”
(organisms of different species that unite
to form an ecological unit)
Collective Intelligence
Swarm Creativity
Distributed Leadership
Reciprocity & Sharing
Regenerative Value
We are superorganisms already!
We are “Holobionts”
(organisms that unite to form an ecological
unit)

25. Successful Collaboration =
Common Purpose*
Communication
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Theory U
(Otto Scharmer, 2007 [2016])
Clarify
Move
Open up
Energize
Dive Deep
Surrender
Let come
Crystallize
Prototype
Test
Evolve

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Thank

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