Scientific Definition
The integrative, systemic, flexible value system — the first of second-tier.
Plain-English Definition
The integrative, systemic, flexible value system — the first of second-tier.
Feynman Explanation
Yellow doesn't pick a side. Yellow picks the level of the problem.
Core Principle
The integrative, systemic, flexible value system — the first of second-tier.
Mechanisms
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The vMeme best equipped to lead organizations through structural complexity.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Yellow doesn't pick a side. Yellow picks the level of the problem.
Examples
- Beck & Cowan; appears in systems leaders, holistic strategists, Theory U practitioners.
- The vMeme best equipped to lead organizations through structural complexity.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Cultivate it: cross-disciplinary fluency, comfort with paradox, long time horizons.
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.
- Cultivate it: cross-disciplinary fluency, comfort with paradox, long time horizons.
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Interactive Mini Network
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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 communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
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.
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.