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Futuregen: a Worldview 4 approach to strategy, innovation and changeBy Jack Martin LeithDirector, Futuregen Labs
Worldview
A worldview is like the operating system in a computer, controlling operations behind the scenes but mostly outside the user's awareness.When someone upgrades his or her worldview, certain things that were
previously impossible become possible, and some things that were difficult become easy.
Each successive worldview incorporates and transcends its predecessor.
Worldview 1
Worldview 1
Worldview 1
Metaphor
What organising metaphor shapes the thoughts and actions of those who operate under Worldview 1?
Worldview 1
Metaphor Machine
Organising metaphor:“The world is a machine”
Worldview 1
Metaphor Machine
The Newtonian/Cartesian worldview
Worldview 1
Metaphor Machine
NEWTONIAN/CARTESIAN WORLDVIEW A system of thought based on the work of British physicist Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) and the French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650).Newton described a mechanistic universe that is stable and predictable, and that obeys the law of cause and effect.Descartes formulated a concept of the absolute dualism between mind and matter, resulting in a belief that the material world can be described objectively, without reference to the human being.Source: GDV Research
Some typical Worldview 1 topics:Competition
Cause and effectResistance to change
Strategic planningShareholder value
Worldview 1
Metaphor Machine
Worldview 1 2
Metaphor Machine
Worldview 2
Worldview 1 2
Metaphor Machine Network
Organising metaphor:“The world is a network of relationships”
Worldview 1 2
Metaphor Machine Network
As exemplified by Facebook, LinkedIn etc.
Worldview 1 2
Metaphor Machine Network
Some typical Worldview 2 topics:Social constructionism
Customer focusEgalitarianism
CommunityValues
Worldview 1 2
Metaphor Machine Network
Some people operating under Worldview 2cannot entertain the possibility of constructing
their reality differently
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Worldview 1 2
Metaphor Machine Network
Some despise this Four Worldviews model,believing it to be anti-egalitarian
While others mistakenly believe theyhave upgraded to Worldview 3 already
Worldview 1 2 Pseudo 3
Metaphor Machine Network
They have embraced some aspects of the systemic worldview, but their Newtonian-Cartesian one
still runs the show
Worldview 1 2 Pseudo 3
Metaphor Machine Network
This is why I call Worldview 2the pre-systemic worldview
Worldview 1 2 3
Metaphor Machine Network System
Worldview 1 2
Metaphor Machine Network
In western organisations, Worldview 2is the prevailing operating system
Let go of judgements and notions of causalityOut beyond ideas of right doing or wrong doing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.Rumi
Crossing the first chasm
The challenge:
WORLDVIEW 2 WORLDVIEW 3
Worldview 1 2 3
Metaphor Machine Network
Worldview 3
Worldview 1 2 3
Metaphor Machine Network System
Organising metaphor:“The world is a system”
Worldview 1 2 3
Metaphor Machine Network System
See, for example:Cybernetics—the science of organisation (Beer, Bateson)
Complex Adaptive Systems (Stacey, Santa Fe Institute)Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela
Evolutionary cybernetics studies the origin and development of purposeful organization in Nature, Mind, Society and Technology.
The presently popular approach of complex adaptive systems too studies many of the same issues, but lacks a focus on hierarchical organization and especially goal-directedness, preferring the use of methods imported from
mathematics, physics and chemistry, where the notion of function or ‘purpose’ is absent.
Source: F. Heylighen (2000): “Evolutionary cybernetics”, in: F. Heylighen, C. Joslyn and V. Turchin (editors): Principia Cybernetica Web (Principia Cybernetica, Brussels),
URL: http://cleamc11.vub.ac.be/EVOLCYB.html.
Worldview 1 2 3
Metaphor Machine Network System
Some typical Worldview 3 topics:Self organisation
Co-creationThe futureComplexityResilience
Worldview 1 2 3
Metaphor Machine Network System
Crossing the second chasm
The challenge:
Inhabit two disparate realms simultaneously:the nonmaterial and the material
WORLDVIEW 3 WORLDVIEW 4
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Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System
Worldview 4
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Organising metaphor:“The world is consciousness”
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
“We still have no adequate definitionof consciousness.”
Mo CostandiConsciousness explained in 30 seconds
The Guardian
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
This comes close:Consciousness can be “described in terms of a series of
moments.” Basically, “one moment gives rise to the next, in which context that was previously implicate is now explicate, while the previous explicate content has become implicate.” Consciousness is an interchange; it is a feedback process that
results in a growing accumulation of understanding.Source: The Cosmic Plenum—Bohm's Gnosis—The Implicate Order
quoting David Bohm, “one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century”
Some typical Worldview 4 topics:Non-reciprocal serviceCreative intelligence
Lived experienceWholeness
Play
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Where Worldview 4 can be seen:Quantum TheoryRupert Sheldrake
David BohmKen Wilber
Zen
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach
What is the dominant change approach?
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management
Change managementManagers seek to engineer a transit from current reality (‘as is’) to desired future (‘to be’) through
top-down change programmes
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
EngagementManagers seek to bring about change by getting
everyone to align with the company’s vision and values
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement Co-creation
Co-creationLeaders seek to create the desired state of affairs by
inviting stakeholders to design and implementthe change initiative together
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement Co-creation Futuregen
FuturegenEveryone seeks to create the desired future (actually the
desired present1, and consistent with the company’s ecopurpose2) through the collaborative design and
implementation of a futuregen project1 ‘Desired present’ originated by James Wilk 2 Ecopurpose is defined in the next slide
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement Co-creation Futuregen
EcopurposeWhy the enterprise exists, beyond profit.
A declaration of the enterprise’s intent to generate value for a particular subset of society
in a particular way.
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement Co-creation Futuregen
Innovation approach
What is the dominant innovation approach?
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement Co-creation Futuregen
Innovation approach
Brainstorm then project manage
Brainstorm then project manageA linear, mechanical way of creating
new products and services
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement Co-creation Futuregen
Innovation approach
Brainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Design thinkingA human-centred approach to innovation, featuring customer insight, iterative concept development and rapid prototyping
Crowdsourcing is another manifestation of Worldview 2
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation
Futuregen
Innovation approach
Brainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Co-creationStakeholders work together to bring
something new into being
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
FuturegenEveryone works together to bring into being something
new that brings the company’s ecopurpose to lifeand helps turn the vision into reality
Spiral DynamicsSpiral Dynamics, a registered trademark of the National Values Center, Inc., is a theory of human development introduced in the 1996 book Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Chris Cowan. The book was based on the theory of psychology professor Clare W. Graves, and originally targeted at a business management audience. Some of the ideas of Spiral Dynamics have been adopted by American author Ken Wilber and other members of the Integral Institute. Source: Wikipedia.
I started to develop my Worldviews model several years before becoming aware of the existence of Spiral Dynamics. The original version of the model consisted of three worldviews: Worldview 1 (the current Worldview 1), Worldview 2 (the current Worldview 3), and Worldview 3 (the current Worldview 4). The current Worldview 2 was inspired by Spiral Dynamics.
Original Worldview 1 Worldview 2 Worldview 3
Current Worldview 1 Worldview 2 Worldview 3 Worldview 4
Spiral Dynamics Orange Green Yellow Turquoise
Spiral Dynamics evolution
Spiral Dynamics
Clare Graves
Don Beck Chris Cowan
Ken Wilber
Spiral Dynamics Integral
AQAL:All Quadrants (Wilber)All Levels (Beck & Cowan)
National Values Center
Professor Emeritus Psychology, Union College, New York The Emergent Cyclical Levels of Existence Theory
Spiral Dynamics linksSpiral Dynamics on Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics
Don Beck: Spiral Dynamics Integralwww.spiraldynamics.net
Chris Cowan: National Values Centerwww.spiraldynamics.org
Clare Graves legacy website (managed by Chris Cowan, Natasha Todorovic and William R. Lee)www.clarewgraves.com
The Center for Human Emergence (Don Beck, Ken Wilber & co.)www.humanemergence.org
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Finally, the Spiral Dynamics level that correspondswith each of the four worldviewsSource of the six-line descriptions: Wikipedia
(captured 5 June 2014)
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics Orange
The colour code for this Spiral Dynamics level isOrange
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange
StriveDrive
This Spiral Dynamics level is calledStriveDrive
Descriptor: Strategic
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange
StriveDrive
Strive for autonomy and independenceSeek out ‘the good life’ and material abundanceProgress through searching out the best solutionsEnhance living for many through science and technologyPlay to win and enjoy competitionLearning through tried-and-true experience
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green
StriveDrive
The colour code for this Spiral Dynamics level isGreen
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green
StriveDrive HumanBond
This Spiral Dynamics level is calledHumanBond
Descriptor: Relativistic
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green
StriveDrive HumanBond
Explore the inner beings of self and othersPromote a sense of community and unityShare society’s resources among allLiberate humans from greed and dogmaReach decisions through consensusRefresh spirituality and bring harmony
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green
StriveDrive HumanBond
“Green egalitarianism cannot easily abide excellence and value rankings, big pictures, hierarchies, or anything that appears authoritarian, and thus green reacts strongly to blue [pre-
orange], orange, and anything post-green.” View source
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green Yellow
StriveDrive HumanBond
The colour code for this Spiral Dynamics level isYellow
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green Yellow
StriveDrive HumanBond FlexFlow
This Spiral Dynamics level is calledFlexFlow
Descriptor: Systemic
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green Yellow
StriveDrive HumanBond FlexFlow
Accept the inevitability of nature’s flows and formsFocus on functionality, competence, flexibility, and spontaneityFind natural mix of conflicting ‘truths’ and ‘uncertainties’Discovering personal freedom without harm to others or excesses of self-interestExperience fullness of living on an Earth of such diversity in multiple dimensionsDemand integrative and open systems
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green Yellow Turquoise
StriveDrive HumanBond FlexFlow
The colour code for this Spiral Dynamics level isTurquoise
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green Yellow Turquoise
StriveDrive HumanBond FlexFlow WholeView
This Spiral Dynamics level is calledWholeView
Descriptor: Holistic
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green Yellow Turquoise
StriveDrive HumanBond FlexFlow WholeView
Holistic is not the same as systemic. Holistic means taking everything into account, including the
‘bad’ stuff, and including that which existsbeyond the physical realm.
Worldview 1 2 3 4
Metaphor Machine Network System Consciousness
Change approach Change management Engagement
Co-creation FuturegenInnovation
approachBrainstorm then project manage Design thinking
Spiral Dynamics
Orange Green Yellow Turquoise
StriveDrive HumanBond FlexFlow WholeView
Blending and harmonizing a strong collective of individualsFocus on the good of all living entities as integrated systemsExpanded use of human brain/mind tools and competenciesSelf is part of larger, conscious, spiritual whole that also serves selfGlobal networking seen as routineActs for minimalist living so less actually is more
There you have it.
FOUR MORE
Remember that each successive worldview incorporates preceding versions.
WORLDVIEW 4
WORLDVIEW 2
WORLDVIEW 1
WORLDVIEW 3
FuturegenFuturegen is a philosophy and practice that enables groups, enterprises and communities to create the future.
It is a synthesis of principles, concepts and methods drawn from a wide range of sources and reflecting the very latest thinking in the fields of strategy, innovation and change.
Futuregen is open source and in perpetual beta. It is the progeny of Futuregen Labs, which conceives, develops and births one-of-a-kind creations that disrupt the status quo and enrich the world, and that are readily available to everyone who might benefit from them.
The founder and director of Futuregen Labs is Jack Martin Leith.
Coming soon:Futuregen briefing paperFuturegen Labs website
@futuregenlabs
Until then, please contact me formore information about futuregen.
Jack Martin LeithDirector, Futuregen LabsBristol, United Kingdomemail: [email protected]: 07582 598548 International: +44 7582 598548www.jackmartinleith.com
Thank you.