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Title: Spiral Dynamics : Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change (Developmental Management) by Don Edward Beck, Christopher C. Cowan ISBN: 1-55786-940-5 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: April, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best insights into reality
Comment: Outstanding! This is not only one of the few books I have read several times, this is the one I take almost always with me on travel (other people take the Bible). As a consultant, I often enter new organisations, and this book provides the most valuable insights to read the organisations and the individuals within, where they are, and where they go. It shows you very fast the meta-structures behind their values, what they expect from you, and what you can expect. It is also very useful, when you are interested in (inter-)national politics or cross cultural interactions. Or take it as a mirror to reflect your own perceptional and behavorial flexibility. The Book explains why and how the peoples values and views of realities are influenced by their life conditions. Included: conditions of change, how should who manage whom to do what, leadership packages, designing natural systems, motivational structures, etc. Vivid examples and explanations of each vMEME pattern convince you instantaneously. WARNING: Once The Book has opened your eyes, you can not close them again.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautiful theory. Not beautiful writing.
Comment: Ever listen to two people argue and realize that they don't really disagree, they just can't understand each other? Ever contemplate two mutually contradictory perspectives that seem to have equal validity? Spiral Dynamics is a powerful and beautiful psychological/philosophical theory that explains the above everyday phenomena better than any other theory I've encountered. It simply posits that humans develop through different, all-encompassing views of life as they mature. Unfortunately, in the book "Spiral Dynamics", Beck and Cowan have aparrently tried to market this theory to a management market by dressing the terms up in CAPITAL LETTERS, bold type, and the ridiculous superscripted "v"-MEME. I assume this is to make them seem like scientific acronyms, like DNA or H2O. Why? Have faith in the theory guys, it's a good one. I just hope they don't screw up the Clare Graves book that they are currently editing. Of course, I'm sure that it will be exorbitant, like the volume under review. Again, why? I suppose, in SD terms, the authors are merely writing for an orange audience, but between that and their exorbitant prices, they come off as rather first tier.
Rating: 5
Summary: Super Book
Comment: This book has been well described by other reviewers and is a must read. It is also the book Ken Wilber presently uses in his integral philosophy. The memes presented in this book are clear and very useful. Since Wilber believes there is a third tier, and concentrates very much on second tier, it would be useful to get a second edition providing Cowen and Beck's views.
Wilber also uses this book as the spring board to his Boomeritis book and the green meme. A must book.
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Title: A Theory of Everything : An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality by Ken Wilber ISBN: 1570628556 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Integral Psychology : Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy by Ken Wilber ISBN: 1570625549 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 16 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Boomeritis : A Novel That Will Set You Free by Ken Wilber ISBN: 1570628017 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Life We Are Given: A Long-Term Program for Realizing the Potential of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul (Inner Work Book) by George Leonard, Michael Murphy ISBN: 0874777925 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: In over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life by Robert Kegan ISBN: 0674445880 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.65 |
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