How to Bring Energy into a Travelling Organization Running Transformations

One of the key questions of the third Three-Pillar book (after the predecessors: Wollmann, P. et al. (Eds.): Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times – Navigating Your Company Successfully through the 21st Century Business World. Cham: Springer Nature, © 2020 and Wollmann, P. et al. (Eds.): Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times – Design and Implementation of the 3-P-Model. Cham: Springer Nature, © 2021) is: How is it possible to transform a “normal organization” into a “Travelling Organization” which itself as a core team is able to run a significant transformation of the whole surrounded organization? Such a Travelling Organization is a group of people starting a journey into the (mostly) unknown, even dreading the unknown, which means that the members of the travel group need a very strong conviction and a yearning to follow the special purpose, an entrepreneurial, flexible, curious—open for learning every day—resilient and focused mindset together with the belief to achieve—together with the team—even very demanding tasks, and the capability to connect in an appropriate way with the encountered preconditions during the journey. The transformation to become such a sort of team, which is really able to run all sorts of transformations of the surrounded organization, and the realization of such a transformational journey needs a lot of energy, most of which the people involved should have in themselves (e.g., leadership and self-leadership), but there is also energy from outside needed from time to time—as the internal energy level might not be sufficient. The demand for the right leadership is overwhelming which means strong impulses from inside the organization are crucial. But there will also be a need for external impulses from time to time, new perspectives and sensations in a totally new—and not necessarily business-linked—context. So, the key question is which types of influences and experiences add (new) energy to a Travelling Organization—even in difficult situations? What if new influences, experiences by activation of a bundle of fundamental senses (visual, auditive, tasting, smelling, feeling) to provide an energetic personal and team sensation expands the mind of individuals and groups? This question is comprehensively answered in this article from different sensory perspectives