The document discusses how humanity is facing a period of fundamental change as limits to growth are being approached. It argues that sustainable limits to the human footprint will likely be overshot, resulting in a potential crisis in the 21st century if responses are delayed. The document also references the work of psychologist Clare Graves, who believed humanity was entering a new phase of development involving a leap to a new level of existence.
4. 1 M people set the rules of the game
53 M know and play the game
skilfully
562 M
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Biz Owners
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& Small Biz owners
54 M Owners
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2 BN Suffering
10. Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap
In 1974 psychologist Clare Graves argued human society is facing a period of fundamental change,
“the most difficult, but at the same time the most exciting
transition the human race has faced to date”
Graves believed humanity was at the beginning of “not merely a transition to a new
level of existence, but
”the start of a new movement in the symphony of
human history”
As man moves from the sixth or personalistic level, the level of being with self and other men,
the seventh level, the cognitive level of existence,
“a chasm of unbelievable depth of meaning is
crossed”
16. “I am not saying in this conception of adult behaviour that one style of being, one form of human existence is
inevitably and in all circumstances superior to or better than another form of human existence, another style of being.
…when one form of being is more congruent with the realities of
existence, then it is the better form of living, for those realities
And what I am saying is that when one form of existence ceases to be functional for the realities of existence then
some other form, either higher or lower in the hierarchy, is the better style of living.
I do suggest, however, and this I deeply believe is so, that
for the overall welfare of man’s existence in the world, over the long
run of time, higher levels are better than lower levels,
“and that the prime good of any society’s governing figures should
be to promote human movement up the levels of human existence”
Dr Clare W Graves, Professor of Psychology, Union College Schenectady, USA
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Source - Rooke and Torbert’s 2006 Harvard Business Review article : Seven Transformations of Leadership. From a sample of 1000 leaders in N America & Europe
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Thriveable - Global Interdependence
Transformative - Integrated Self
BAU - Powerful Self
BAU/CSR - Conventional Order
CSR/Sustainability- Enterprising Self
Sustainability - Pluralistic Consensus