Scientific Definition
The communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
Plain-English Definition
The communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
Feynman Explanation
Green built the inclusion policy. Green also built the meeting that never ends.
Core Principle
The communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
Mechanisms
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The communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
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Strong on belonging and ethics; weak on decisiveness without supporting structures.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Green built the inclusion policy. Green also built the meeting that never ends.
Examples
- Beck & Cowan; visible in DEI, ESG, flat-org movements.
- Strong on belonging and ethics; weak on decisiveness without supporting structures.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Pair Green's values with Orange's rigor or Yellow's systems thinking to avoid analysis paralysis.
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.
- Pair Green's values with Orange's rigor or Yellow's systems thinking to avoid analysis paralysis.
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
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Order, discipline, hierarchy, principle, and rule-based value system. The 'right way' to do things.
The achievement-driven, rational, strategic, market-oriented value system. Most of Western corporate life.
Egocentric, power-driven, immediate-gratification value system. The will to dominate.
A value system — a structured way of making meaning that emerges at a particular life-condition stage.
The integrative, systemic, flexible value system — the first of second-tier.
We prefer stories over raw facts, even when the story is misleading.
We construct a coherent life story; that story shapes future decisions.
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 relative weight a culture gives to individual goals vs. group cohesion.
The combination of historical, social, and existential pressures that activates the next vMeme.
How much hierarchical inequality a culture accepts as normal.