Feature Articles
Robin Lincoln Wood During the 1960’s and 1970’s there was a growing awareness amongst political, cultural, business and scientific leaders around the globe that the spread of nuclear weapons and…
J. Kim Wright and Luemara Wagner (with special thanks to Don Beck) Kim: I was a speaker at the Spiral Dynamics Summit on the…
Bjarni S. Jonsson Collective Wisdom The Iceland National Assembly Social Experiment Following the financial crisis, the Icelandic nation was in a state of shock, anger and despair. While it was…
08/29 – Predicting the Unpredictable The Good and Bad Effects of Capital on the Momentous Leap
Said Dawlabani “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future” Yogi Berra, American baseball philosopher Welcome to the Age of Disruption Over the last few years, I have been…
Michiel Doorn This paper explores whether inventions and technologies can be “civilized” such that their embedding in our social, biological & economic fabric leads to the flourishing of all life…
08/29 – A 2nd Tier Approach to a 1st Tier World
Keith Rice The Spiral Dynamics Summit on the Future (Dallas, 20-22 April 2018) was a fairly awesome event. A gathering of leading Gravesian practitioners (both on the stage and in…
08/29 – Interstate Bus Lines: A Tribal Centre of Gravity in Need of Functioning Blue
Rica Viljoen In his 2006 book, The Crucible – Forging South Africa’s Future, Don Beck[1] described that thinking systems are deep-core intelligences that form as a coping response to…
08/29 – Facilitating the Emergence of a Thriving Global Civilization
Nicholas Beecroft For the first time in human history, a global civilization is emerging. It was initiated by the European empires which first connected together the whole world with trade…
05/31 – The Assessment and Development of Analytical and Systems Thinking Skills in the Work Environment
Maretha Prinsloo & Riana Prinsloo Introduction Human survival is premised on the capacity to continuously ascribe meaning to stimuli and acting on these perspectives in order to achieve certain goals….
05/31 – Complexity: Identifying and Releasing Unnecessary Complexity in Next Generation Infrastructure Development
Bonnitta Roy The ability to understand how complexity creeps into infrastructure development processes, enables leaders to identify, anticipate and avoid “solutions” that escalate systemic complexity and thereby increase systemic risk….