Don Beck & Christopher Cowan – Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change

Introduction.

Part I: Overview of Spiral Dynamics:.

1. Different Times Produce Different Minds.

2. The Nature of MEME systems.

3. The Mind of the Spiral.

Part II: The Dynamics of the Spiral’s MEME’s:.

4. Change and the Spiral.

5. The Dynamics of Leadership.

6. Spiral Wizardry.

7. Spiral Alignment: Streaming Visions into Reality.

8. Spiral Integration: Power and Precision in Organization Design and Transformation.

Part III: The Spiral Wizard’s Field Manuel: .

9. Beige: Survival Sense. The Instinctive MEME.

10. Purple: KinSpirits. The Clannish MEME.

11. Red: PowerGods. The Egocentric MEME.

12. Blue: TruthForce. The Purposeful MEME.

13. Orange: StriveDrive. The Strategic MEME.

14. Green: HumanBond. The Relativistic MEME.

15. Stepping Over to the Second Tier. Yellow: FlexFlow. The Systematic MEME.

16. The Second Tier, A Second Step. Turquoise: GlobalView. The Holistic MEME.

Part IV: Global Order and Chaos on the Dynamic Spiral:.

17. Global Awakenings: ‘New World Order’ (and Chaos).

Resources for Spiral Wizards

• presents a new framework for understanding the dynamic forces at work in human affairs – business, personal lives, education, and even geopolitics;
• focuses on cutting-edge leadership, management systems, processes, procedures, and techniques;
• synthesizes changes such as: increasing cultural diversity; powerful new social responsibility initiatives; the arrival of a truly global marketplace;
• adds power and precision to the theory of human systems and the 21st century leadership;
• meshes UK biologist Richard Dawkins’ concept of “memes” with Gravesian “value systems” and lays out a very specific Tool Kit for managing the deepest differences in people;
• demonstrates how, by applying the right tools at a base level rather than to surface symptoms, any bright, curious human being can, quite simply, change the world.