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Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change
by Don Edward Beck, Christopher Cowan
from Wiley-Blackwell

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• State of The Art Sociology
  As CEO Coach, Poet and author of a leadership book that helps leaders learn how to unleash the genius of teams and corporations, I feel this book is a must read. It help leaders understand the nature of the cultures and societies they work within. Paul David Walker Unleashing Genius: Leading Yourself, Teams and Corporations

• Makes sense out of things that didn't make sense
  The model presented about how the paradigms of thinking and how value memes develop over time in a person, organization, or society are brilliantly insightful. This book should be required reading for anyone running a company or organization of any size. The insights that can be gleaned are significant (at least in the lines of development in which one if far enough along oneself).
  This is not at all an "easy" book to read. It takes time and thinking, and is probably best read in parallel with a few... more info

• A New Way of Understanding the World
  It may not be the "answer to everything" but Spiral Dynamics helps to put a context around why people act in certain ways when presented with certain life conditions. Using the theory of memetics (idea viruses), spiral describes the evolution of humans as a progression from one value system to another along a double helix spiral. Pitched to those in management or leadership, Spiral Dynamics offers insights as to why some people need traditional or hierarchical or ordered or opportunistic or caring or... more info

• Brilliant Idea
  I first heard of Spiral Dynamics when I went to hear Don Beck speak at the Dallas Philosopher's Forum. He was one of the worst speakers I ever heard -- but his ideas were so incredible, so brilliant, that they shined through the poverty of his delivery. When I then went out to buy the book, I encountered the same problem: brilliant ideas, poor delivery. But the ideas are so good, it is work struggling your way through this book just to get the ideas.
  The idea is this: thinking and societies exist at... more info

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