Dr Brian Hall is one of the truly great thinkers whom you may never have heard of. His life's work has been to discover how to measure a person and a group's values. The sad part of this, is that he was successful - just at a time when our organizations reverted in the death throes to being very basic - all about survival - and so rejected his work. Here then is a quick summary of our values landscape.
You can see here the underpinnings of my upcoming book on human history.
The key here is in the section 10 - the locus of authority - this is where the struggle to evolve is taking place right now. Until now, most people looked to a higher person or institution for authority - the mass media - the CEO - the School - the university - the doctor - the banker - the supermarket - the oil company. The government!
We are now seeing that this does not work. It does not serve us to give them our trust and our lives.
When we shift our locus of authority to ourselves - we grow up as a species.
Once we make the shift - we start to want to participate in making our lives AND the world a better place. Until we do, we cannot. Those who work now on Local Resiliency, Local Food, Personal Health, Open Source - have all made this shift.
So have a look at this and find out where you stand