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Success through self-organization

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According to the culture stage model, there are three different cultural stages in systems. They show the gradual path from working against each other to working with each other. The culture of communities develops step by step in such a way that people can live their humanity better and better. Organic self-organization is only possible at the last of these three cultural levels 1 . The culture of dominance Dominanz der starken Menschen und Institutionen 2 . The culture of functionality Dominance of the rules 3 . The culture of care Dominance of the heart The cultural stages build on each other and each of these three cultures has a constructive and a destructive phase. We suspect that we rarely achieve anything good with dominance - the dark side of power - today. But in anarchic and chaotic times, brute strength often creates the first order. Boss becomes the strongest individual, later the strongest group and then the strongest institution. But in the course of time, a dominant culture must be replaced by the culture of functionality, because otherwise it breaks down due to the complexity of the structures it has created. This is also the case at the next level. The culture of functionality does not work with personal strength, but with rules and laws. This creates a more efficient and therefore more favorable order. It is no longer the strong who dominate, but logic, technology, science and the legal system that determine the organization. The age of inventions, engineering and researchers has begun. Well "functioning" people create a new prosperity together. But they are hardly happy, because they are not working for themselves and their goals, but for money. Work and life seem like two pairs of shoes. And the basis of functionality is usually still old hierarchical structures of dominance. Today, we are increasingly living in the late phase of the culture of functionality. In many places, it has already passed its zenith and even with more rules and regulations, we can no longer properly regulate the increasingly complex interaction, neither in private, professional or social contexts. What would be the next step? The next culture is one of mutually supportive cooperation. It is the culture of practiced caring. We support others on their paths and in their work and we are supported by others in our work and goals. We can easily define and achieve common goals. We have a good sense of ourselves and others. There is trust and inspiration here, because shame belongs to the first cultural level and guilt to the second. At the cultural level of caring, we flexibly entangle our strengths and weaknesses in order to be strong together. Work and life are no longer artificially separated. "Work" is our effectiveness and involvement and therefore a good part of our lives. We "live it up", as the saying goes. If we don't take the step into this caring culture, things will quickly go downhill again. Cooperation would ultimately fail because of individuality, which would naturally become stronger and stronger at the functional level of culture. Unfortunately, the culture of functionality cannot deal with individuality. Where collaboration fails, the system soon finds itself in a culture of dominance or even chaos. But if we simply move forward courageously, self-determined individuals will come together freely to form self-organized teams and projects, and the evolution of cooperation will emerge as a peaceful (r)evolution of hearts. Self-organization at the team level is not difficult, but this only applies to teams that operate within the culture of caring. Therefore, the first task is to switch to the culture of care. .