Dimensional thinking and doing
Chapter 1 - Our Worldview
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Creation of layers
We create layers of experiences from what is important (interests - why) and valuable (values - how) to us at every moment of our lives.
They are the two primary dimensions.
- Interest, the active dimension, spans
- from autonomy
- to participation.
- Values, the second one, spans
- from coherence
- to connectedness.
- In turn, the layers they create, constructs a third dimension we can use to create new layers from (= emergence)
- competencies
- to our relevant goals.
How this works is best explained by the theory of constructed emotions.
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Brief overview
The grids hereafter only depicts a tiny part of the vast amount of layers you, and we together, create throughout our life.
In most cases, when we are focused on a specific topic, we are (only) aware of the horizontal connections in the grid. Still, we are unaware of the vast vertical consequences connected to the case.
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Personal
Why | How | What | ||
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Interests | Values | Goals | ||
Active dimension | Evaluative dimension | Potential dimension | ||
From what is important for me
to what is important for us. |
From what has meaning to me
to what is the meaning for us |
From my competencies
to the relevance of actions for the bigger situation | ||
PERSONAL | ||||
Inner focus | ||||
Temperament | Prestige | Pleasure | Payment | |
Emotions | Worries and concerns.
What stands in your way? |
Resources and skills.
What would be the best way for you to contribute ? |
Hopes and goals.
What do you want to accomplish? | |
Cognition | Defence | Diplomacy | Development | |
Cognition | Patterns | Principles | Processes | |
Other focus | ||||
Behaviour | Courage | Compassion | Curiosity | |
Behaviour - Trust | Autonomy | Connectedness | Competencies | |
Behaviour - Responsibility | Participation | Coherence | Relevance | |
Psychology | Cognitive dissonance | Fundamental attribution error | Base-rate neglect | |
Philosophy | Ernst Fehr | Beliefs | Preferences | Constraints |
Philosophy - Brain | Striking and beautiful | Right and good | Correct | |
Outer focus | ||||
Experiential | Self-conscious | Socially aware | Environmentally aware | |
Experiential | Self confidence | Self appreciation | Selfknowledge | |
Experiential | Insight | Lucidity | Perspective | |
Cultural embedding - History | Fire | Campfire. Joint meals | Culture transfer. Formation of groups and societies | |
Cultural embedding | Jan Terlauw | How did I become who I am? | What's the matter with the world? (What's going on around me?) | How do we solve it? It's solvable! |
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Organisational
Why | How | What | ||
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Interests | Values | Goals | ||
Active dimension | Evaluative dimension | Potential dimension | ||
Why is there an opportunity to invent / advance / ...? | How will we make it work? | What drives the use? | ||
ORGANISATIONAL | ||||
Action | Strategy - Corporate futuring | Organisational futuring | Market awareness - Innovation awareness - Customer experience | |
The telegraph | The battery | The electromagnet | Cables | |
Railroad | The steam engin | High-strength steel | The telegraph, essential for coordinating operations | |
Car | Petroleum refining | The gasoline engine | The assembly line | |
Shopping centre | Centralized cost-effective manufacturing that provide low-cost (instead of craft-made) products | Railroads that enabled low-cost distribution of goods | Mass production of pulp paper enabling massive volumes of catalogs to be produced and distributed at low cost | |
Air conditioning | The electric motor | The centrifugal compressor | The distribution of cheap electricity | |
IBM computer | The silicon transistor | The magnetic tape | Computer logic (software) | |
Cellphone technology | The lithium battery | Microprocessors | LCD screen | |
Amazon | The internet | Data centres | The smartphone | |
Logistic chain | Platform economy | WWW, AI, 5G | Need for predictable, transparant and efficiënt supply chains |
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