Spiral Dynamics in Action
Humanity's Master Code
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Spiral Dynamics in Action
Humanity's Master Code
About This Book
A more effective leadership model for the new business environment.
Spiral Dynamics in Action explores the evolution of modern business, and provides a model for moving forward amidst ever-increasing complexity and change. Only by truly understanding other people's perspectives can you bring them together to achieve the extraordinary, and this book provides a field guide to the different motivations, behaviours and talents in your team to help you lead diverse groups more effectively. Focused on action over theory, the Spiral Dynamics model includes cutting-edge leadership practices, management systems, processes, procedures and techniques to help you bring about real-world results.
The nature of change is consistent, but that doesn't make it any less enormous or complex to deal with. As a business leader, you are tasked with not only navigating change yourself, but also guiding others through the maze successfully. This book shows you how to shift your perspective, hone your focus and deliver what your people need by:
- Understanding the reasoning behind different perspectives.
- Helping people play off one another's strengths to achieve a shared goal.
- Adopting cutting-edge practices, processes and procedures for improvement.
- Taking action to re-connect an increasingly fragmented environment.
The marketplace has gone truly global, workforces are increasingly diverse and companies are taking on powerful new social responsibilities. It's a lot to take in, let alone manage, but the responsibility of leadership is to gather disparate parts and make them into a whole. It's your job to turn anchors into rocket fuel, and motivate and inspire your team to the top. By digging to the core of each person, each culture and each problem, you uncover a roadmap to high performance; Spiral Dynamics in Action shows you how to guide your people through any changes and emerge stronger than before.
Frequently asked questions
PART 1
Spiral Dynamics: The Foundation
- Introduction – The Lay of the Land of this Book
- The Architect of the Existential Staircase – Clare Graves
- The Code Book
- Natural Design – The Ever-Emerging Ecology
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Introduction – The Lay of the Land of this Book
Spiral Dynamics in Action Quest for the Master Code – An Introduction
About the Book
- World view: messaging and pattern recognition.
- Degree of complexity: existing or emerging codes of thinking.
- Command and control: the inherent flexibility.
- Organizing principles: the intensity of the condition.
- Elaborating stream implications: the view and implications of the past, present and future timeline.
- Potential: the functionality or health of the system.
The Purpose of the Book
- How to recognize, identify and define the social system's cultural DNA codes that they lead, and elaborate those codes to functions to be performed.
- How everything is impacted on whenever core value systems in the organization's or group's cultural DNA change.
- How to design different kinds of organizations, whether corporate, e.g. banks and mines, educational, religious/spiritual, sports and high-performance teams or military systems, as well as entrepreneurial and service organizations such as airlines and hospitals.
- How to apply the underlying processes, principles and tools of natural design to transcend the old, rigid, top-down leadership and management models.
- How to synthesize approaches to leadership, organizational theory and culture.
- How to go beyond holism into specific functional designs that morph and shift themselves as times change and new problems appear.
- Grounding in initial Gravesian thought.
- The unique contribution that Beck brought to the field of study.
- Highlighting the unique integration of supportive theories that Beck offers.
- Application that stood the test of time in terms of the following:
- Sustainability.
- Credibility.
- Transferability.
- Academic depth.
- Purist application of the Gravesian and Beckian theoretical foundation.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Special Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- Figures and Graphs as a Map for the Book
- Part 1: Spiral Dynamics: The Foundation
- Part 2: Spiral Dynamics Global
- Part 3: The Surge in a Social Context
- Part 4: Spiral Dynamics PLUS
- Part 5: The Road Forward for Humanity
- About the Authors
- Glossary
- Acronyms
- Additional Resources
- Bibliography
- Index
- EULA