Denmark Technical University DTU

Egon Loke, DTU

IT department of 45 people, embedded in a typical hierarchical IT organization of 190 employees, delivering IT-services and software development to the Universities 6000 employees and 12000 students.
The past 18 months, we have been implementing TEAL and sociocratic principles and culture. We do this slowly, cooperatively and by using hierarchy to destroy hierarchy. We are working with creating and maintaining a critical mass of change-energy, dealing with deep and powerful hierarchic behavioral pulls and undercurrents that affect behaviour, dealing with stories and emotions, implementing (circle)structure and governance, and in general, trying to experiment our way with TEAL/Sociocracy in a large classic hierarchical (public) organization.

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