Nº 04 · Spring Equinox · forthcoming
Levels & Lines
Development is not a ladder; it is a chord.
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§1 · 6 min
Altitude is Not ContentWhat you believe is content. The complexity at which you can hold a belief is altitude. The two get confused constantly and it costs us most of our debates.
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§2 · 5 min
The Chord of SelfEach line of intelligence rings at its own altitude. The person you are at any given moment is the chord those notes make together.
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§3 · 5 min
Leaders as Altitude DetectorsThe first job of a senior leader is to know which conversation is content and which is altitude — and to refuse to hold the wrong one.
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Chapter · 01 · 5 min
Why Stage Models Keep ReturningFrom Spiral Dynamics to Kegan to Cook-Greuter — the same shape under different paint. Consultants keep re-branding it. Reality keeps not caring.
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Chapter · 02 · 6 min
Kegan's Orders of MindSocialized, Self-Authoring, Self-Transforming — and the gravity well between four and five where all your favorite founders are currently stuck.
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Chapter · 03 · 7 min
Spiral Dynamics, BrieflyBeige to Turquoise without the marketing voltage. Fewer color codes than a Wes Anderson movie, more than a UI kit.
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Chapter · 04 · 8 min
Cook-Greuter's Late StagesConstruct-aware, Ironist, Unitive — and what a leader at each one actually does in a Monday meeting (a lot of listening, honestly).
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Chapter · 05 · 5 min
The Cognitive LinePiaget's children, all grown up and still developing. Some of them run our government.
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Chapter · 06 · 6 min
The Emotional LineFeeling as a competency that develops, regresses, and, when very stressed, buys a boat.