Self-interest & exchange
Right is what serves my interests; fair deals and reciprocity.
How it sounds
I'll back your plan if you back mine next time — that's fair.
Signs in writing
- 'what's in it for me'
- tit-for-tat
- fair trade
Values
fair exchange
Fears
being cheated
Staying healthy at this stage
- honest bargains
Growth edge
- consider how others will see you and what a good person would do
How to be heard at this stage
- make a fair offer
The same altitude in other models
Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.
- Opportunist Cook-Greuter
- Self-protective Loevinger
- Primary Commons
- Mythic-Literal Fowler
- Imperial mind Kegan
- Opportunist Torbert
- Power / Egocentric Spiral Dynamics
- Red Wilber
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