| 0. Introduction—Spiral Wizardry_Managing Spiral Dynamics
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| 1. Introduction
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| 2. Spiral Overview
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| 1. Different Minds
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| 2. vMEME Systems
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| 3. The Dynamics of Change
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| 1. Change Potential
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| 2. The Dynamics of Leadership
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| 3. Spiral Alignment - Streams
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| 4. Spiral Integration - Templates
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| 1. Workflow- the X Template
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| 2. Management - the Y Template
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| 3. Command Intelligences - the Z Template
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| 4. The Spiral's vMEME Structure
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| 1. The First Tier
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| 2. The Second Tier
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| 3. Spiral Chaos - Global Awakenings
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| 4. Spiral Order - Scanning the Environment for Patterns
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| 5. Establishing your Geo-Templates
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| 6. Sounding for Geo-currents
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Section 1: Overview of Spiral Dynamics
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| 1. Different Times Produce Different Minds
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| 1. Great Ideas are Forged in Chaotic Times
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| 2. The Humpty Dumpty Effect
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| 3. Distortions in Cycleland
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| 4. Minds Change With the Times
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| 5. The Shifting Views of Tom Peters and the Tofflers
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| 6. The Wonderful World of Spirals
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| 7. Cometh the Thinking: Spiral Dynamics
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| 8. The Construction of Spiral Dynamics
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| 9. The Pathfinder on the Mohawk
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| 10. Genes and Memes: Circuit Riders on the DNA
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| 2. The Nature of vMEME Systems
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| 1. Interviews with Six People
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| 1. Songoma
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| 2. Street Kid
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| 3. West Point Cadet
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| 4. Entrepreneur
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| 5. Social Activist
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| 6. Parks Ranger
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| 2. The Same Six People (Ten Years Later)
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| 1. Songoma (+10 years)
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| 2. Street Kid (+10 years)
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| 3. West Point Cadet (+10 years)
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| 4. Entrepreneur (+10 years)
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| 5. Social Activist(+10 years)
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| 6. Parks Ranger (+10 years)
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| 3. Why Differences? Why Change?
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| —Re-enter Clare W. Graves
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| 4. Qualities of vMEMEs — [What They Do, Are or Can Do]
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| 1. Manifest the core intelligences affecting human behavior
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| 2. Impact all of life's choices
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| 3. Express healthy (better and unhealthy (worse qualities.
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| 4. Are structure of thinking
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| 5. Can brighten and dim as Life Conditions change
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| 5. A Quick vMEME Overview
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| 3. The Mind of the Spiral
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| 1. Living Systems-Within
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| —Seven Principles of the Core Wisdom, the elan vital—
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| 1. Humans possess the capacity to create new vMEMEs
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| 2. Life Conditions affect vMEMEs dynamically
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| 3. vMEMEs zig-zag between Express and Sacrifice self themes
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| 4. vMEMEs emerge along the Spiral in a wave-like Fashion
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| 5. vMEMEs spiral up and down through levels of complexity
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| 6. vMEMEs coexist within our 'onion'-like profiles
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| 7. vMEMEs cluster in Tiers of Six along the Spiral
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| 2. A Final Note: The Matter of Labels
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Section 2: The Dynamics of the Spiral's vMEMEs
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| 4. Change and the Spiral
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| 1. vMEMEtic Strategies for Change
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| 2. Principles of Spiral Change
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| 3. The Six Conditions for vMEME Change
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| 1. POTENTIAL ...
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| 1. Estimating the Potential for Change: OAC Status
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| 2. The OPEN State: Readiness for New Modes X
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| 3. The ARRESTED State: Reluctance to Rock the Boat
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| 4. The CLOSED State: This Is All There Is
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| 2. SOLUTIONS ...
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| 3. DISSONANCE ...
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| 4. BARRIERS ...
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| 5. INSIGHT ...
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| 6. CONSOLIDATION ...
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| 1. The Five Steps in the Pathway of vMEME Change
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| Phase 1: The ALPHA Fit
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| Phase 2: The BETA Condition
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| Phase 3: The GAMMA Trap
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| Phase 4: The DELTA Surge
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| Phase 5: The New ALPHA
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| 2. Seven Variations on the Theme of Change
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| 1. Horizontal Change 'Fine-TUNE'
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| 2. Horizontal Development 'Expand-OUT'
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| 3. Oblique 'Stretch-DOWN'
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| 4. Oblique 'Stretch-UP'
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| 5. Vertical 'Break-OUT'
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| 6. Vertical 'UP-Shift'
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| 7. Vertical 'Quantum'
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| 3. ASSESS Before Trying to Implement Change
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| 5. The Dynamics of Leadership
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| 1. vMEME Wizards
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| 2. Wizards of Change
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| 3. Spiral Wizards
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| 4. Leadership from the Second Tier
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| 5. The Seven Marks of the Spiral Wizard
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| 1. Think OPEN Systems rather than CLOSED Final States
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| 2. Live and Work Natural Flows and Rhythms
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| 3. Ultimate Goal to Keep the Spiral Healthy
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| 4. Interact Well With Many Conceptual Worlds
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| 5. Complete With Resources, Strategies, and Skills
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| 6. Systemic Thinkers and Integrative Problem Solvers
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| 7. A Unique Blend of Personal Beliefs and Values
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| 6. The U.S. Military as as Macro Model of Leadership
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| 6. Spiral Wizardry
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| 1. The Spiral - in People, Companies, and Entire Societies
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| 2. Detection: A Check-List of Recognition Principles
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| 3. Use Universal "P-O-A" to Build Positive Relationships
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| 1. P—The Politeness Factor
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| 2. 0—The Openness Factor
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| 3. A - The Autocracy Factor
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| 4. The Spiral Wizard's Options for Situational Intervention
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| 1. Just Walk Away
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| 2. Reframe the Conditions
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| 3. Connect Ideas with vMEMEs
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| 5. Rules of Thumb for Spiral Leaders
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| 1. If followers' vMEMEs are more complex than their
leader's, control can be taken only by intimidation or force
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| 6. Characteristics of the 2nd Tier Leadership Package
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| 7. Characteristics of Organizations in the Second Tier
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| 8. Spiral Managing the Whole Spectrum
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| 9. Leadership Assumptions of the Core vMEMEs: Anatomy
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| 10. Dissecting First Tier Organizations on the Spiral
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| — Leadership Packages at vMEME levels
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| 1. GREEN—Social or Communitarian
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| 2. ORANGE—Rational or Economic
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| 3. BLUE—Moralistic or Prescriptive
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| 4. RED—Exploitative or Egocentric
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| 5. PURPLE—Communal or Tribal
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| 7. Spiral Alignment: Streaming Visions into Reality
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| 1. The Design and Alignment of 'Natural' Systems
with Power and Precision
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| 1. The Design Formula: Framing the Right Questions
(before giving premature answers!)
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| 2. The Plumb Line Process
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| 1. Job Requirements
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| 2. People Profile
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| 3. Recruitment and Selection
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| 4. Placement
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| 5. Training and Development (TAD)
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| 6. Management
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| 7. Form
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| 2. Spiral Alignment through Streams
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| 1. Overview
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| 2. Choosing the Streams Team
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| 3. When to Stream the Spiral
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| 4. How to Align the Spiral:
The 10 Elements in the Streams Sequence
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| 1. Decide What Business You Really Are In
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| 2. Chart Big Picture Patterns and Flows in the Milieu
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| 3. Take Inventory of Resources, Functional Capacities,
and Life-Cycle Stages:
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| 4. Establish Set-Points, Locate Flywheels,
and Map the Organization's Psychological 'DNA':
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| 5. Develop and Propagate a Strategic Vision
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| 6. Connect Everything to Everything Else
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| 7. Design an Ideal Hypothetical Model
Fitting Structures to Functions
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| 8. Liberate, Realign and
Reshape Current Systems to Fit New Model
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| 9. Place the Right Person into the Right Job
with the Right Tools and Support:
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| 10. Build in Ongoing Realignment Processes
for Continuous Shifts and Changes
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| 8. Spiral Integration:
Power and Precision in Organization Design and Transformation
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| 1. The Wonderful World ofVirtual Reality
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| 2. The Need for Templates: An Illustration in the Air
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| 3. How Templates Work on the Spiral
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| 4. The X Template: The Most Natural Forms and
Flows for the Critical Functions
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| 1. Scripting and Charting the Job-to-be-Done
'from Alpha to Omega
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| 2. Linking of Customers, Clients, Stakeholders and Functions
in Strategic Alliances on the X Template
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| 3. vMEME Profiles and Levels of Complexity
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| 4. Applying Patterns of Thinking and Natural Intelligences
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| 5. The Y Template: People Factors and Management Systems
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| 1. Using the Y Template for Selection,
Alignment and Integration of People and Processes
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| 2. Y Template Management of
Technology, Resources,and Facilities
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| 3. Day-by-day Monitoring of Events, Issues, and Performance
from the Y Template
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| 6. Z Template Command Intelligences
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| 1. Continuous Scanning of Present and Future
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| 2. Macro-Managing the Total Organism
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| 3. Shaping Large Scale Change and Strategic Interventions
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| 1. World sensing quantum mind capacity:
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| 2. Sequential plan construction mind capacity
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| 3. Complex plan execution mind capacity
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| 4. Entrepreneurial intelligence pattern
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| 5. Translational intelligence pattern
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| 6. Transformational intelligence pattern
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Section 3: The Spiral Wizard's Field Manual
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| 9. BEIGE Survival Sense The Instinctive vMEME
• Survive at the most basic level
• Satisfy physiological needs
• Form protective/supportive bands
• Entities exist as biological units
• Simply make it through the night/day
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| 1. Awakening of the BEIGE vMEME — TRACKS —
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| 1. At the Core of BEIGE, a virtually automatic existence
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| 2. The Most Basic Human Needs
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| 3. Survival Skills and BEIGE Intelligences
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| 4. Dealing with the BEIGE vMEME
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| 5. BEIGE/purple: Exiting Phase
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| 10. PURPLE KinSpirits The Clannish vMEME
• Obey desires of the mystical spirit beings
• Show allegiance to elders, custom, clan
• Preserve sacred places, objects, rituals
• Bond together to endure and find safety
• Live in an enchanted, magical village
• Seek harmony with nature's power
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| 1. From Instincts and Biology to a Conscious Mind
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| 2. beige/PURPLE: Entering Phase
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| 3. PURPLE: Peak Phase — SIGNS —
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| 1. The mind of PURPLE is animistic, shamanistic, and mystical
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| 2. The collective memory carries the little memes for PURPLE
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| 3. One for all, all for one
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| 4. Shaman, Elders, and Chieftain
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| 5. Spirits, spirits everywhere
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| 6. Calling on mother when times are tough
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| 7. The map is the territory
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| 8. Gender, Sex, and Kinship
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| 9. Impact on the environment
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| 4. PURPLE/red: Exiting Phase
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| 11. RED PowerGods The Egocentric vMEME
At the Core of RED -Life Conditions
• In a world of haves and have-nots, it's good to be a have
• Avoid shame, defend reputation, be respected
• Gratify impulses and senses immediately
• Fight remorselessly and without guilt to break constraints
• Don't worry about consequences that may not come
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| 1. purple/RED: ENTERING — FLAGS
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| 1. From Magic to Machismo
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| 2. From Consensus to Dominance
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| 3. It's in Every One of Us
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| 2. RED: Peak Phase — FLAGS —
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| 1. It Ain't My Fault
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| 2. Grandiosity
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| 3. When RED First Appears
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| 4. LC3 are the REAL WORLD for Millions of People
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| 5. A Life's Not Worth Very Much
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| 6. Life is a Jungle
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| 7. A Society of Unequals - HAVES and HAVE-NOTS
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| 8. Who's AT-RISK, Anyway?
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| 3. RED/blue: Exiting Phase
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| 12. BLUE TruthForce The Purposeful vMEME
At the Core of BLUE - Life Conditions
• Find meaning and purpose in living
• Sacrifice self to the Way for deferred reward
• Bring order and stability to all things
• Control impulsivity and respond to guilt
• Enforce principles of righteous living
• Divine plan assigns people to their places
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| 1. red/BLUE: Entering Phase
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| 2. BLUE: Peak Phase
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| 1. Bringing order to chaos and structure instead of anarchy
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| 2. The mood of BLUE
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| 3. The rightful exercise of just authority
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| 4. Right and Wrong
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| 5. A reason and a purpose
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| 6. Who goes there? Friend or foe?
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| 7. Order and regimentation, everything in its proper place
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| 3. BLUE/ orange: Exiting Phase
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| 1. MOTTO: Work!
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| 2. MOTTO: Authority on the Move
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| 13. ORANGE StriveDrive The Strategic vMEME
At the core of ORANGE-Life Conditions
• Strive for autonomy and independence
• Seek out 'the good life' and material abundance
• Progress through searching out the best solutions
• Enhance living for many through science and technology
• Play to win and enjoy competition
• Learn through tried-and-true experience
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| 1. blue/ORANGE: Entering Phase
Five forces enter, still resonant in modernism
• Market economy
• The utilitarian nation state
• Narrowing of science as objective
• Popularization of technology
• Libertarian rise of individual
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| 2. ORANGE: Peak Phase — FLASHES —
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| 1. Change, not permanence,
is how nature works
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| 2. Authority lies with experience, experiments,
and one's own right-thinking mind
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| 3. People are meant to succeed and become winners
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| 4. 'If 'twere done, 'tis best 'twere done quickly
(while I can get the recognition)'
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| 5. Conformity to the image of success and fashion
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| 6. Growing up with the ORANGE world
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| 7. Life is a series of challenges,
tests, and opportunities to do better
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| 8. 'Run it up the flag pole and see who salutes'
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| 9 Humans are resources, so...to thine own self be true
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| 10. Self-assurance comes with the territory
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| 11. Free-market, free-enterprise,
and laissez-faire models are the favorites
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| 2. ORANGE/green: Exiting Phase
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| In Summary, the Five Forces the Orange vMEME adds to the spiral
• a capacity for discipline and the scientific method
• a pragmatic sense of empowerment to resolve inevitable change
• thirst to be first to discover, invent and conquer hidden worlds
• a belief in human perfectibility through intelligent work
• a release of the competitive 'juices' to strengthen the self to win
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| 14. GREEN HumanBond The Relativistic vMEME
• Explore the inner beings of self and others
• Promote a sense of community and unity
• Share society's resources among all
• Liberate humans from greed and dogma
• Reach decisions through consensus
• Refresh spirituality and bring harmony
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| 1. orange/GREEN: Entering Phase
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| 2. GREEN: Peak Phase — FUZZIES —
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| 1. Togetherness, harmony, and acceptance drive decisions
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| 2. Metaphysics and feelings begin to replace
old scientific analysis
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| 3. Plenty of room for everyone
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| 4. We, the people who share a common vision,
have our weaknesses
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| 5. Communicating both content and feelings
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| 6. To bring diversity together into community
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| 7. The boundaries of tolerance and acceptance
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| 8. Relativity can be uncertain
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| 9. To sacrifice self for love since everyone is beautiful,
in their own way
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| 2. GREEN/yellow: Exiting Phase
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| 15. Stepping Over to the Second Tier
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| —YELLOW FlexFlow The Systemic vMEME
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• Accept the inevitability of nature's flows and forms
• Focus on
functionality, competence, flexibility, and spontaneity
• Find natural mix of conflicting 'truths' and 'uncertainties'
• Discovering personal freedom
without harm to others or excesses of self-interest
• Experience fullness of living
on an Earth of such diversity in multiple dimensions
• Demand integrative and open systems
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| 1. green/YELLOW: Entering Phase
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| 2. YELLOW: Peak Phase — FLOWS —
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| 1. A FlexFlow Perspective
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| 2. YELLOW's internal controls
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| ...2. LC7 — FLOWS —
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| 3. YELLOW is open to learning at any time and from any source
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| 4. YELLOW thinkers rely on
what's necessary, natural, and next
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| 5. YELLOW thinkers
display Second Tier lifestyle priorities and preoccupations
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| 6. YELLOW engages a number of unique problem resolution
and decision-making processes that are both highly complex
in design and remarkably simple in execution
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| LC7 Two Competencies
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| 1. Developmental hotspots for change
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| 2. Problem solving seeking for change
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| 3. YELLOW: Exiting Phase
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| 16. The Second Tier, A Second Step
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| TURQUOISE Global View The Holistic vMEME
• Blending and harmonizing a strong collective of individuals
• Focus on the good of all living entities as integrated systems
• Expanded use of human brain/mind tools and competencies
• Self is part of larger, conscious, spiritual whole that also serves self
• Global (and whole-Spiral!) networking seen as routine
• Acts for minimalist living so less actually is more
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| 1. yellow/TURQUOISE: Entering Phase
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| 2. TURQUOISE: Peak Phase — HOLONS —
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| 1. Everything flows with everything else in living systems
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| 2. Embraces a global communitarian sense
without attacking individuals' rights to be
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| 3. Discovers a new version of spirituality
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| 4. Macro-view perspective translates
into action in behalf of the whole Spiral and all its parts
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| 3. TURQUOISE/coral: Exiting Phase
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Section 4: Global Order and Chaos on the Dynamic Spiral
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