Adventures in Reinventing Work - Tales of Pioneers from Around the World - E-book - ePub

This book explores the personal journeys of pioneers who are creating and transforming organizations to not only generate profits, but to also enable a future that empowers and uplifts all of humanity. In reading these stories, you will get to know fourteen people and organizations from all over the world, small startups and large multinationals. You will understand their challenges, their successes, and gain a glimpse into how organizations are evolving to the demands of a complex, rapidly changing world.  If you are interested in conducting your own experiments with better ways of managing and working, this book will give you inspiration.
It also provides actionable ideas and simple practices to help you get started and move forward.  Included in this book are stories from: Viisi and Tom van der Lubbe (Netherlands) Roche and Lara Bezerra (Brazil) Semco, Ten Pines, and Semco Style Institute (Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands) Bayer and Itziar Canamasas (Switzerland) Ultipa and Monica Liu (China) LIVEsciences and Timm Ur hinger (Switzerland) Kanpai and Guilherme Xavier (Brazil) Youthology and Lisa Li (China) SecondMuse and Todd Khozein (USA) Social Innovation Academy and Etienne Salborn (Uganda) Natural Organizations Lab and Shiro Yoshihara (Japan) Eve List and Sophie Le Rey (Dubai and France) One Planet Group and Payam Zamani (USA) Leadership Transformation and Otti Vogt (Netherlands) Modeling these new ways of working, the writers and production team who have created this book are self-organized volunteers, who came together through the virtual world, and are part of the Teal Network community, dedicated to inspiring change in the workplace and in the world.
All proceeds from the book will be invested in a Purpose Fund to support greater access to the Teal Around the World virtual conference and related activities. Special thanks to the writing team: Natasha Naderi, Betsy Sheppard, Alia Aurami, Philip Atkinson, Jorim Holtey-Weber, Langdon Miller, Svetoslava Stoyanova, Sarah Toogood, Zlatina Tsvetkova, Cecilia Yeung, Cherry Zhu