After being in the so called "Real World" and then taking a step back to go back to school I have realized that the spiral dynamics model could work backwards in application to lives of adults that return to school.
Whil eworking I found I was in the "Acheivist /Scientific" or orange column in terms of Characteristics, decision making, education and life space. In the work place there was always the competition to be notice and excel abd upper management was used in consultation to advance. Now that I'm back in school I've noticed a shift towards the "Purposeful/Authoritarian" or blue column. This shows that in terms of characteristics my competition for success has now fallen back to the "one right way" to do things. Everyone is now just trying to make it to the finish line and not clobber eachother on the way there. In terms of decision making our ruling authority, the teacher, dictates our lives instead of the consultation seen while working. On the same level, in terms of education, the teachers word is be all end all of knowledge where as in the work place experiments for advancement was the catch phrase.
So why is it that school, which is supposed to advance and enrich your life, makes you fall backwards in terms of the spiral dynamics model? Is it because your way of personal thinking is taken away? Who knows. I am relaly looking forward to moving back of the spiral dynamics ladder towards a "Holistic/Collective Indiveidualism"life though.
http://www.spiraldynamics.org/
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