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STRUCTURE INFLUENCES BEHAVIOR When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
The First Turning is a High, an upbeat era of strengthening institutions and weakening individualism, when a new civic order implants and the old values regime decays.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
The Fourth Turning is a Crisis, a decisive era of secular upheaval, when the values regime propels the replacement of the old civic order with a new one.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
The Third Turning is an Unraveling, a downcast era of strengthening individualism and weakening institutions, when the old civic order decays and the new values regime implants.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
A Prophet generation is born during a High. A Nomad generation is born during an Awakening. A Hero generation is born during an Unraveling. An Artist generation is born during a Crisis.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
• Many people seem to attach less importance to lifetime careers and advancement.
Howard Marks • Howard Marks Memo - The Winds of Change
This model for individual human development ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation, a way of progressing from our current egocentric societies (materialistic, anthropocentric, competition based, class stratified, violence prone, and unsustainable) to soulcentric ones (imaginative, ecocentric, cooperation based, just, compassionate
... See moreBill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
The “ages” triad is the movement from what Taylor calls the ancien régime to the age of mobilization to the age of authenticity.