Worldview LensSystematic
Builds multivariate systems; multiple interacting causes; relationships among relationships.
How it sounds
Housing prices reflect interest rates, zoning, migration and wages all interacting — no single lever explains it.
Signs in writing
- multiple interacting causes
- trade-offs among variables
- system-level description
- institutions and structures
Values
complexity · fairness at system level
Fears
oversimplification
Staying healthy at this stage
- build and refine good system models
Growth edge
- compare and coordinate whole systems or frameworks with each other
How to be heard at this stage
- map the system with them
The same altitude in other models
Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.
- Pluralist Cook-Greuter
- Individualistic Loevinger
- Conjunctive Fowler
- Self-authoring → Self-transforming Kegan
- Individualist Torbert
- Communitarian / Egalitarian Spiral Dynamics
- Social contract & rights Kohlberg
- Green Wilber
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