Scientific Definition
The relative weight a culture gives to individual goals vs. group cohesion.
Plain-English Definition
The relative weight a culture gives to individual goals vs. group cohesion.
Feynman Explanation
'Self-made' is itself a cultural claim.
Core Principle
The relative weight a culture gives to individual goals vs. group cohesion.
Mechanisms
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The relative weight a culture gives to individual goals vs. group cohesion.
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Global org design fails when one cultural default is imposed everywhere.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
'Self-made' is itself a cultural claim.
Examples
- Hofstede's dimensions; predicts everything from negotiation style to feedback norms.
- Global org design fails when one cultural default is imposed everywhere.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Localize incentive design, performance management, and feedback to the cultural context.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Localize incentive design, performance management, and feedback to the cultural context.
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
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Cultures vary in how strictly norms are enforced and deviance punished.
Each value system (Beige through Green) believes itself to be the only valid one and dismisses the others.
The combination of historical, social, and existential pressures that activates the next vMeme.
How much hierarchical inequality a culture accepts as normal.
Yellow and Turquoise vMemes — first systems that recognize the legitimacy of all earlier value systems.
A developmental model of human value systems (vMemes) emerging in response to life conditions.
Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic — a tiny, atypical psychological sample.
How will I feel about this in 10 minutes / 10 months / 10 years?
Basics first (health/finances), then depth (mastery/impact), then altruism (widening circle).
A group decides on a course of action that nobody actually wants, because everyone assumes others prefer it.
Inattention or forgetfulness caused by low attention, hyperfocus, or distraction.
Deriving general rules from specific examples; the leap from instance to concept.