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Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change
"Spiral Dynamics "introduces a new model for plotting the enormous economic and commercial shifts that are making contemporary business practice so complex and apparently fragmented. Focusing on cutting-edge leadership, management systems, processes, procedures, and techniques, the authors synthesize changes such as:
Increasing cultural diversity.
Powerful new social respo...more
Increasing cultural diversity.
Powerful new social respo...more
Paperback, 343 pages
Published
October 1st 2005
by Blackwell Publishers
(first published March 31st 1996)
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Feb 19, 2012
Ivan
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I'm still reading this book, but I have to mention one thing that keeps ticking me off - excessive use of clichée literary embellishments and thesaurus, peppered by very informal speech - it hurts the overall credibility of the book. It is almost as if the author, instead of writing something in a simple fashion proudly runs up to the reader and says , waving his arms - "Look, I know how to use big words! And I'm really good at that" and then - in a gesture to please a less-educated audience sta...more
Although written in a business context, it holds a philosophy about the parallels of human socio-evolution and individual growth which are mind-blowing.
It is a controversial stipulation because critics say it creates a euro-centric process and assumes all cultures will follow the same process. However the theory relies so much on the nature of human beings to stick with what works until it doesn't any more and to start something new that better meets the essential needs, especially of individua...more
It is a controversial stipulation because critics say it creates a euro-centric process and assumes all cultures will follow the same process. However the theory relies so much on the nature of human beings to stick with what works until it doesn't any more and to start something new that better meets the essential needs, especially of individua...more
Very much in the text-book style which can make it challenging to stick with but eventually presents one of those great universal type models that seems to explain everything. I read this right after Tribal Leadership because it is referenced a few times there and the two models are rather complimentary. The second tier vMEMES they defined (yellow and turquoise) do come off as a bit idealistic but also opens the door to realizing there are probably more vMEMES out there than just the 8 that they...more
another one that's really hard to rate. The content is fantastic, and very useful for anyone wanting to really understand Spiral Dynamics. But if you're not over 50 and Texan, you can hardly read it - because it's not written in English but in Texan! That is a great set back and hopefully something more up to date will be written soon (it is hard to see a writer rave about GM or the banking sector, or the moral excellence of the US military, with no awareness of 9/11 or the massive corporate sca...more
important but , in my humble opinion, very poorly written book - the work of Graves did not deserve to be buried in such a shambling text - it made an extremely useful and creative model of human development into something obscure and elitist ( for really smarty people who have university education) - the KEY to these ideas can be found in 'A Theory of Everything' by Wilbur - who managed to make the theory much more accessible to everyone.
This is one of five books I keep at my fingertips. It's a wonderful source for my work endeavors designing collaborative cultures and for communicating and connecting with my various communities. It is dense reading and well worth the slow journey through it - lots of gems and insights are contained within these pages.
Dec 28, 2012
Olga Vallinsgren
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Interesting ideas, but I felt that the whole book was a failure in semantics. Sometimes I got lost, not being able to make a difference between the values, or that there seemed to be contradictions a little bit here and there throughout the book.
Whilst I love the concept of Spiral Dynamics, I found the book a bit heavy going. For more of a review - including links to a great overview on Spiral Dynamics, take a look at my blog --> http://wp.me/p10Vn0-7Z January 2012
Brilliant theory, check the Wikipedia entry and leave the Introduction until after you have read it!
If it weren't that most self-help books are totally useless, I'd write this one off as well. The thing is that this is the management system for people who don't like systems. There are developing 'value' MEMEs that different people adhere to based on their outlook on the world (as determined by their life situation: country, age, education, etc) and by adapting our communications to these arch-MEME types we can better organize and get things done. Far too formulaic and the pop culture went unde...more
a wanna-be yellow living in a (worst of) blue/orange state.
Brilliant intro to the work of Dr Clare Graves
good for a flick through but too messy to read
really brilliant framing of the evolution of society (but a terrible painful dry academic read). look for a workshop instead.
I love the priciple fo Spiral Dynamics, find it a powerful tool and a great model to understand different dynamics and needs for change.
The book itself is quite complex, written in a complex language. It can take a while to read it. As well, I would appreciate an update, as the book was written in 1995 and many things that are described as future, actually lay in the past.
The book itself is quite complex, written in a complex language. It can take a while to read it. As well, I would appreciate an update, as the book was written in 1995 and many things that are described as future, actually lay in the past.
very interesting and useful concept, however its written in a style that makes it very difficult to read. my suggestion would be to find a short summary and read that instead
interesting books, beneran bikin jadi penasaran banget buat finish till the end.
baca ini karena tugas dari kantor, buat persiapan tahun depan. program2nya...
baca ini karena tugas dari kantor, buat persiapan tahun depan. program2nya...
thought this was interesting how we act as humans and it was interesting to see where people where up and down the spiral
Good book for understanding business.
Most kick ass reading ever
May 21, 2013
Jan-pieter Zoutewelle
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