# Organization evolution

## Organisation Images and Metaphors

The last 2 centuries the most used image for organisation was the [Machine](https://www.amazon.com/Images-Organization-Gareth-Morgan-ebook/dp/B00Y3JFZ68). Our organisational language is loaded with terminology alluding to this image.

Alternative images best inform and define our evolutionary journey:

1. > **Flux and Transformation**: an organisation is an ever-changing system indivisible from its environment
2. > **Organism**: an organisation is a collective response to its environment and, to survive, must adapt as the environment changes

If we understand a DHO is a living part of an ecosystem in a permanent flow and transformation, to concepts become important:

*[Autopoiesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis): (from [Greek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language "Greek language") αὐτo- (auto-) 'self', and ποίησις ([poiesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poiesis "Poiesis")) 'creation, production') refers to a [system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System "System") capable of reproducing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts and eventually further components.*

Exopoiesis: "In exopoiesis, an organism functions not for its own benefit, but rather for the benefit of something related to it, to which it is therefore of instrumental value.Tabbi, Joseph (2002) Cognitive Fictions.

A DHO Journey is a journey into decentralisation requiring new language, new thinking, new concepts, new images, new metaphors and new stories.

Also [Frederic Laloux's ](https://www.reinventingorganizations.com)*[Reinventing Organization](https://www.reinventingorganizations.com)s* used [Integral Theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_theory_(Ken_Wilber)) approach to classify organisations, from which a Teal organisation seams to be relevant bases for a DHO.

More in [https://reinventingorganizationswiki.com/theory/organizational-structure/](https://reinventingorganizationswiki.com/theory/organizational-structure/)

[![Self-Managing_Structures.jpg](https://guide.hypha.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2021-05/scaled-1680-/self-managing-structures.jpg)](https://guide.hypha.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2021-05/self-managing-structures.jpg)[![Self-Managing_Structures nested teams.jpg](https://guide.hypha.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2021-05/scaled-1680-/self-managing-structures-nested-teams.jpg)](https://guide.hypha.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2021-05/self-managing-structures-nested-teams.jpg)

Both the Web of interconnected individuals or the Nested [Holonic](https://guide.hypha.earth/Holonic) circles are good graphical bases for the DHO organisation archetypes.

While the above are good bases for the [Organisation DHO archetype](https://guide.hypha.earth/books/dho-journey/page/before-starting-the-dho-journey "Before  starting the DHO Journey") they come short for the remaining archetypes.

[![fractal-map-of-belonging-edited.jpg](https://guide.hypha.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2021-05/scaled-1680-/fractal-map-of-belonging-edited.jpg)](https://guide.hypha.earth/uploads/images/gallery/2021-05/fractal-map-of-belonging-edited.jpg)

Richard D. Barlett [Micro-solidarity](https://www.microsolidarity.cc) exploration reveals some natural patterns of humans coming together. These ideas are relevant for any Type of DHO.