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Anutha Mindmate - Dr Clare Graves
Like the bud of the rose, man at the first level is a tightly bound system whose totality is yet to be. All that is to be in man or rose is present but not seen and this, all that is there, may never come to be. As one may never know the full beauty and fragrance of the rose, so too, may one never know the full flavor of human behavior.
If you have the time I think it's a good read
http://www.clarewgraves.com/articles_content/1965/1965_1.html
Replace business with community
Manager with community manager
Replace Business with Gov
Manager with Public Service/Politicians
it's about those that manage the managed
love it
Predestinative management ultimately gives way and one of the reasons is that nature does not place brains solely in the heads of predestined leaders. Some of the led get their share and some of these ultimately question their slavish existence. When successful Predestinative management frees energy in the human system and when this increased energy is joined with the impelling reason of dissatisfaction dynamic brain systems are activated which produce insights that propel man to a still higher level of human existence.
and this
The few, and there are few in the beginning, lift themselves to the third subsistence level through their own efforts. And as a result they see themselves as unquestionably superior to others. After all, they alone have brought themselves to this exalted position by superior use of their own energies. They were not born to be, they were made by their own efforts. They conclude, therefore, that they are indeed superior, that they are destined to lead not by Divine plan, but by proven superiority. Thus they spawn the power ethic. An ethic based on the thema that Might is Right, a thema described in detail by Machiavelli. This is the level of the omnipotent existence, a state of existence derived from the individual’s ability to produce at will and based on what can be called the domestication of power.
He who lives by the power ethic believes that the power to change rests in the superior talents of the few, those few who are capable of using force to obtain desired ends. Power is virtue.
Hows this gem
The leader strives to entice the led to arrive at the managerially desired decision and the led strive to avoid a decision they fear others will not like.
After all the goal of fourth level people is to be liked, not to decide.
If managers are at the fourth level and the managed are at the second level the situation is worse. Leaders believe the followers should participate in decisions and the follower believes he should be told. The manager waits for participation and the managed wait for direction. In this hopeless combination of dissimilar incongruent value systems the organization is stifled. It dies.
The whole paper is such a learn
Variability of a marked degree, value wise and other wise is here. It will always be with us. Let us include in our decision-making matrix that man is an organism which at one and the same time tends to settle into any one of a number of quasi closed systems or to move on through many to his equifinal end.
1959 - "An Emergent Theory of Ethical Behavior Based upon an Epigenetic Model"
(from the Collection of William R. Lee)
1960's - Excerpts from papers and tables illustrating Dr. Graves' thinking about the theory at
that time. (from the Collection of William R. Lee)
1961 - "On the Theory of Ethical Behavior," paper sponsored by the Religious Education
Committee of the First Unitarian Society, Schenectady, NY
"The most significant comment on man’s present predicament I have heard in many
years." -- William Gold, minister The First Unitarian Society
(from the Collection of William R. Lee)
1962 - "The Implications to Management of Systems-Ethical Theory," November 11, 1962
(from the Collection of William R. Lee)
1964-65 - "Levels of Human Existence and Their Relation to Value Analysis and
Engineering," paper presented to the Fifth Annual Value Analysis Conference
1965 - "Value Systems and their Relation to Managerial Controls and Organizational Viability,"
presentation to the College of Management Philosophy, The Institute of Management
Sciences, Jack Tar Hotel, San Francisco, California, February 3, 1965
1965 - "Personality Structure and Perceptual Readiness: An Investigation of their Relationship to
Hypothesized Levels of Human Existence," Clare W. Graves, W. C. Huntley, Douglas
LaBier, Union College. (A tachistoscopic study by Douglas LaBier used by Graves in
validation of his point of view.)
1965 - "Man: An Enlarged Conception of His Nature," paper presented at the 2nd Annual
Conference on the Cybercultural Revolution, New York, 1965.
1970 - "The Congruent Management Strategy," Clare W. Graves, Helen T. Madden, Lynn P.
Madden. An industrial report laying our a new philosophy for managing.
1970 - "The Levels of Human Existence and their Relation to Welfare Problems," paper delivered
May 6, 1970, at the Annual Conference, Virginia State Department of Welfare and
Distribution, Roanoke, Virginia
1970 - "Levels of Existence: An Open System Theory of Values." Journal of Humanistic
Psychology. Fall, 1970. Vol. 10 No.2., pp. 131-155. (Available in print only. See 1971,
"Seminar on Levels...", below.)
1971 - "Seminar on Levels of Human Existence" presented at the Washington School of
Psychiatry, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1971. Available as the book, Clare W.
Graves: Levels of Human Existence, by William R. Lee, Chris Cowan, and Natasha
Todorovic. Includes a reprint of the 1970 Journal of Humanistic Psychology article,
"Levels of Existence: An Open Systems Theory of Values," which is not available in
electronic form. Order at Store tab
1971 - "Levels of Existence Related to Learning Systems," Paper read at the Ninth Annual
Conference of the National Society for Programmed Instruction, Rochester, New York,
March 31, 1971
1971 - "How Should Who Lead Whom to do What?" Presentation at the 1971-1972 YMCA
Management Forum
1973 - "Let Us Bring Humanistic and General Psychology Together: A Research Project Needing
to Become." Presentation at the NIMH, Washington, D.C.
1974 - "Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap" The Futurist, April, 1974, pp. 72-87.
1977 - The Never Ending Quest: Dr. Clare W. Graves on Human Nature, manuscript of book
project stopped by poor health. Reconstruction published 2005.
1981 - "Summary Statement: The Emergent, Cyclical, Double-Helix Model Of The Adult Human
Biopsychosocial Systems" (Handout prepared by Chris Cowan for Dr. Gaves's
presentation in Boston, Mass., May 20, 1981)
1982 - Unpublished Seminar Handout (Used by Dr. Graves in his presentations sponsored by
The National Values Center; prepared by Chris Cowan)
For additional references from Dr. Graves' work, go to the bibliography in Source section