Teal Organizations

Biological Parallel

Mycorrhizal networks connect trees through fungal threads, enabling resource sharing (carbon, nitrogen, water) based on need rather than competition—surplus flows from abundant trees to struggling seedlings without central allocation. The forest operates as a self-organizing system with distributed sensing, wholeness (ecosystem health over individual dominance), and evolutionary purpose (forest succession). Laloux's Teal model mirrors mycorrhizal economics: self-management replaces hierarchy, wholeness replaces siloes, and evolutionary purpose replaces fixed strategic plans, enabled by information networks that make centralized control obsolete.