INTERACTING FOR BENEFIT

 

The Hub: Principles
Basic Conceptions
Personal Functioning
Psychosocial Reality
Endeavour & Its Taxonomy
Re-thinking the Mind
Classification of Tools
Framework Listing
Taxonomy Development
Architecture
Graphic Overview
Technical Summary
Meta-THEE Perspectives
Errors & Puzzles
Naming
Explaining Naming
Making a Name Valid
Choosing Names
Rectification of Names
Using Natural Language
Using Formulae
Examples of Naming
One Word Many Refs
Inquiry Approach
Ethical Design
Knowledge for Action
Formulation
Advice & Maxims
THEE in Social Science
Controversies & Synergies
Validation
Integrating ObservationS
Mutual Validation
Socio-historical Validation
Structural Corroboration
Taxonomic Structures
Entities
Exemplification
Processes
Hierarchies
Varieties
Q-expansion
Dualities
Misuse
Trees
Spiral Origin
Cf. to «Tree of Life»
Typologies
Mentalities & Approaches
Plot a Typology's Types
Spirals
Maturation in Practice
Personal Endeavour
Get Oriented
Unification Story
Preview
THEE Path
Endeavour's Origin
Will: Conjectures
Hierarchy of Endeavour
7 Realms in Endeavour
Transcendence-Actualization
We are Here to Do
Superstructure for Doing
Transcendence is Easy
Actualization of Potential
Private v Public
From Willingness to Action
Detrimental Use of Energy
«My» Endeavours
My Intransigent Dilemma
Effects of the Dilemma
Social Engagement
To the Point of No Return
Actualization at Last
Reinforcing Actualization
Personal Engagement
Review: It's About You
How the Map Developed
More on Reality
Applications
What is Me & Mine?
Two Powers Combine
Creativity in Endeavours
Helpful & Unhelpful Ideas
Rise to a Challenge: RsHG7
Use Willpower: RsHG1
Conduits of Autonomy
Deepen Conviction: RsHG2
Expressions of Confidence
Focus Enthusiasm: RsHG3
Generators of Support
Commit Your Self: RsHG4
Amplifiers of Capability
Muster Perseverance: RsHG5
Regimens of Vantage
Allow Immersion: RsHG6
Courage & Positivity: RsHG7
Review & Recap
Catalysts for Creativity
Optimism Confronted
Inner & Outer Orientations
Degrees of Creativity
Blocks to Creativity
Failure in Creativity
Root Level Conjectures
Creativity in Organizations
Free Choice v Authorization
Effects of Authorization
Influences on Challenges
Effects on Energies
Team Creativity
Qualifier Validity: Analysis
Being Creative
Discovering the Map
From Courage to Willpower
Effort-Attention Tensions
Distinguish Creative Choices
The New Ever Emerges
Sustain Creativity
Entanglement
Creativity is an Adventure
Review & Applications
Creating a Life
Commitment in Relationships
Intoxication & Conviction
Framework for Togetherness
Creativity in Organizations
Your Better Self
Get Oriented
Background Story
Man is a Moral Being
Is Goodness Rare?
Religion & Its Confusions
THEE Path
Our Primal Quests
Unravelling the Quests
Standard Answers
Not «The Hero's Journey»
Not «Archetypes»
7 "Purposes of Life"
Pleasure & Meaning
Enlightenment: RH'L3
Check Confusions
Salvation: RH'L4
Creation: RH'L5
Obedience: RH'L6
Spirituality: RH'L7
Initial Review
Discerning Your Quest
Involving a Lower Quest
Not «Interacting for Benefit»
Practical Aspects
Pleasure in Practice
Meaning in Practice
Enlightenment in Practice
Salvation in Practice
Creation in Practice
Obedience in Practice
Spirituality in Practice
Review: Quests in Practice
Validation via Unfolding
Quest Comparisons
TET Model for Comparing
Interaction with Reality
Plotting Primal Quests
Creation as Cornerstone
Immersion in Reality
Equilibrium in Reality
Quest Affinities & Contrasts
Auspices for Quests
Response to Obstruction
Effects of Self-Detachment
Quests & Damaged Selfs
«Right» is the Beacon
Personal Combinations
Details with Examples
Review: Summary
Self & Society
FAQ
Alternative TET Layouts
Human Existence
Recognize the Divine
Contentious Issues
Being Instrumental-RH'L1
Being Mindful-RH'L2
Being Awake-RH'L3
World Saviours-RH'L4
Divine Beings: RH'L5-L7
Review
Power and Evil
Matrix Summaries
Humanity & Society
Primal Delusions
Transpersonal Being
Being & Management
Tree of Good & Evil
Centres on Human Planes
Inter-Human Influences
Centres on Divine Planes
Inter-Divine Influences
Divine-Human Interactions
Review of Influences
Our Achilles' Heel
The Eternal Struggle
The Pleroma
Primal Injunctions
Structure of this Story
What is a «Better Self»?
Get Enjoyment: RH"L1
Hold Ideals: RH"L2
Become Aware: RH"L3
Care About Others: RH"L4
Do Your Best: RH"L5
Heed What's Right: RH"L6
See Unity: RH"L7
Overview: Use in Adversity
Two Poles of Obedience
Meaning of «Restrain Evil»
Egocentric Monsters
Source of Egotism
Varieties of Egotism
Locating Evil in THEE
Evil ≠ Bad
Evil Superorganisms
Evil & Lust for Power
Quiz on Evil
Review
Humanity's Codes
Three Forms of Code
Origin of the Codes
Examples of Codes
Communal Existence
Not Social Development
Tension in Obeying
Injunctions in Practice
Unite with Others
Stabilize by Getting a Grip
Stabilize by Paying Attention
Thrive with Others
Face Danger & Temptation
Rise to the Occasion
Review
The Full Picture
Goodness in Existence
Form-Storm-Norm-Perform
Goodness is Natural
Useful Patterns
How It Goes Wrong
Producing Goodness
The Building Blocks
Purity of Motive R"G7
Use Ultimate Values R"G1
Vehicles of Goodness
Conditions for Goodness
Our Primal Values
Demystifying Values
More on Submission
Find Strength R"G2
Talk to Yourself
Overview the Mantras
Self-Control Features
Personal Uniqueness
Overcome Pain R"G3
Abilities to Heal
Purify Yourself
Healing Techniques
Peaceful Interaction
Build Character R"G4
Revelation of Character
Theatres of Authenticity
Forms of Time
Attain Equanimity R"G5
Uses of Empathy
Embrace Vitality R"G6
Great Dreams R"G7
Review
What is the Motivation?
Goodness and Adversity
Goodness v Ethics
Focus for Affirmation
Natural but Difficult
Power v Goodness
Qualifier Validity Check
Bring Goodness to Life
Motivation & Responsibility
The Challenge to Goodness
Altruism v Egotism
You are the One
Coexist: Affirm Goodness
Coexist: Affirm My Self
Goodness as the Criterion
Managing Spiritual Energies
Review
Guarantor & Nemesis
Review & Reflection
Frameworks of Existence
Unexplored Root Frameworks
Humanity within Society
Spirituality in the Taxonomy
Goodness & Disruptions
THEE as a Tool
Purpose & Value
Get Oriented
Discovery Story
Download Here
THEE Path
Politics
Get Oriented
Background
Definitions of Politics
Ethics-Politics Nexus
Structure of the Inquiry
THEE-Path
Government and Politics
Government is a Need
Politics is the Means
Regimes & Ideologies
Ethics and Social Life
Ethical Choice
Politics and Ethics
Ethics in Politics
The Unit that Counts
Political Evolution
About Maturation
Time-before-Design
An Enlightened Goal
Inevitable Discontinuity
Model Preliminaries
Using a TET
Step 1: TET Axes
Step 2: Comparing
Affinities & Antagonisms
Liberation & Regulation
Spiral of Political Maturation
Advance Orientation
Schema for Modes
Numbering Systems
Stage 1: Pluralist-I
Privileged Pluralist Ethos
Transition #1
About Revolutions
Stage 2: Legitimist
Legitimist Ethos
Socialism: The Dream
The Alternative
Transition #2
Stage 3: Individualist
Individualist Ethos
Wealth and Money
Tragedy of the Commons
Transition #3
Stage 4: Rationalist
Rationalist Ethos
Spontaneous Evolution
Plutocratic Pluralism-II
Review of Cycle #1
Maturation in the West
An Appraisal
Financialization USA-UK
Transition #4
Entering the Future
Imagining the Future
Upside Down Again
Turbo-charging Cycle #2
Stage 5: Conventionalist
Professionalization
A Practical Strategy
Referenda Issues
Transition #5
Stage 6: Transcendentalist
Values & The Citizenry
Transition #6
Stage 7: Communalist
Spontaneous Evolution
Participative Pluralism-III
Review of Cycle #2
Review Political Maturation
Demands on The People
The West: Past & Future
Another Sequence?
Authoritarian Stasis
Society : Government : State
Maturation of «the State»
Determining Political Choice
The Dilemma
Struggle for Power: CL1
Discontent and Violence
Regulating Raw Politics: CL2
Legitimism:Its Confusions
Individuals in Politics: CL3
Public-Private Dilemma
Conflicts of Interest
Influences on Officials
Goal of Politics: CL4
Political Influences
Social Context: CL5
Influences of "The People"
Moral Context: CL6
Natural Moral Institutions
More on the Institutions.
Moral Influences
Personal Context: CL7
Influences of Needs
Review Political Choice
Paradoxes of Choice
Politics: Good & Bad
Explore the Channels
Varieties of Government
Applications
Organizations
Usual Definitions
Politics of Decisions
Global Arena
Power Struggles: CL1
Law & Nations: CL2&3
Higher Concerns:CL4-7
Some Reflections
Families
Sources of Power
Power in Practice
Individuals in a Family
Review of Family Politics
Political Life in Society
Social Responsibility: CG1
To Participate or Not
Politicians Aren't Stupid
Arenas of Commitment
Pungent Views
Doing Political Work: CG2
Exerting Pressure
Clashing Realities
Media Contributions
Use of Language
Crisis as Opportunity: CG3
Mobilization for Results
Matrix Overview
Commissioning Inquiry: CG4
More on Policy Sources
Inquiry Methods
Policy Mind-sets
Authorizing Solutions: CG5
Authorizing Leaders
Political Leadership
Systems for Change
Society's Power: CG6
Political Will
Inner Experience
Stability & Unity: CG7
Violence and the State
Review Political Activities
Continuity v Change
Root Correspondence
Conjectures
Applications
Organizations
Religious Order
Global Politics
Handling Political Tensions
Change via Participation
Limits of Personal Influence
Dilemma in Political Activity
How the Dilemma Shows
Review Handling Tensions
Political Territories
The Nation-State: L5
The Territorial Hierarchy
Regional Government: L4
Alternatives for Regions
Centre-Region Conflict
Local Government: L3
Personal Territories:L2 & L1
Consortia of Nations: L6
Global Assembly: L7
Review Political Tiers
Political Tiers & Services
Needs v Services
Two Types of Territory
Public Services
Communal Needs
FAQ: Theory meets Reality
Evolution of Larger Tiers
Analyse Your Country
Review the Story of Politics
Steps in Discovering Politics
People: Responsibility&Power
Hope
Interacting-for-Benefit
Get Oriented
Synopsis
THEE-Path
Background
7 Interaction Mentalities
Market-centred
Power-centred
Cause-centred
Community-centred
Kinship-centred
Perspective-centred
Reality-centred
Growing Up
Comparing Approaches
What Words Can Mean
FAQ
Immediate Uses
Intellectual Technologies
Self and Others
TETs CompareTypes
Using the TET
Boosting Benefit
Not Seeing Eye to Eye
Well-being & Productivity
Best of Both Worlds
Generating Benefit
Autonomy
Self-Protection
Production
Social Cohesion
Responsibility & Rationality
Authority & Stability
Specialization
Attention to Others
Objectivity
Subjectivity
Staying on Top
Inner Experiences
Dynamic Action
Social Bonds
Analysing Resonance
Business and Markets
Money and Work
Damaging Business
Values in Markets
Work Alternatives
Sensible Motivation
Career Development
Guidance & Preview
Workplace Focus
Benefit for the Employer
Your Adventure
Career Challenges
Stage-1. Do the Job Well
More...
Handling Exploitation
Stage-2. Work the System
More...
Settling Here
For Power-lovers only
Stage-3. Commit to a Path
More...
Settling Here
Stage-4. Achieve for the Firm
More...
Settling Here
It's a Watershed
Stage-5. Sustain a Core Group
More...
Settling Here
Stage-6. Embrace the Alien
More...
Stage-7. Master the Future
More...
Focus on the Enterprise
Review & Apply
Synopsis
Career Principles
Personal Demands
Team Work Challenges
Leadership Roles
Cooperating for Results
Meaning of Cooperation
Intrinsic Tension
L1-Self-Interest
L2-Security
L3-Competence
L4-Consensus
L5-Harmony
L6-Better Options
L7-Unification
The Full Picture
Use for Diagnosis
Profitability Frameworks
Commercial Imperatives
Strengthening the Ethos
1. Productivity
2. Competition
3. Promotion
4. Reciprocity
5. Surrender
6. Innovation
7. Positioning
Pressures at Transitions
Commercial Principles
Marketing Frameworks
Paradox of Control
Market v Product Duality
Foci for Profitability
Company v Market Duality
The Marketing Tree
Marketing Strategies: 1-5
Marketing Strategies: 6-9
Marketing Strategies:10-14
Marketing Strategies: 15-18
Marketing Strategies: 19-22
Two Marketing Outlooks
Framework Overview
Contentious Topics
New Technology
Customer Satisfaction
Line Extension
Government & Prosperity
Economic Ideas
Economic Imperatives
Prosperity's Demands
Meta-economic Matters
Valuing Commerce (L1)
L2&3: Reducing Tensions
L4: Strategic Intervention
L5-7: Designing Strategies
Poltico-Economic Dilemmas
Control v Adaptation
Government v Wealth-creation
Rationality v Politics
Centres for Choice
Politico-economic Forces
Framework Overview
Communication
Get Oriented
An Evolutionary Tale
Background to Inquiry
Notes on Reading
THEE-Path
Ten Challenges
Fundamental Elements
The Communicative Event
Stimuli L1: Foundation
Signals L2: Get the Message
Signs L3: Fill in the Picture
Symbols L4: Cross Boundaries
Terms L5: Wrap it Up
Meaning L6: The Driver
Openness L7: The Enabler
Review
Factors in an Event
The Pendulum of Precision
Experience & Communication
Where do Words Fit?
The Listener & The Seer
Communication Usually Fails
Check for Hierarchy
Experience & Individuality
Get Oriented
Study of Experience
Terminology Issues
Fluidity of Experience
Levels of Experience
Speculative Contrasts
Mind Self Identity Existence
THEE Path
Preview
7 Stabilization Methods
The New Way Forward
Sensory-L'1 Reformulated
Notes on Methods L'2-L'7
Stabilizer or Stressor?
Review of Dualities
Useful Comparisons
The Psychosocial Field
Plotting the TET
Zones in the TET
Auspices
Self-Assertion
External Confirmation
Handling Issues
Affinities & Antagonisms
Pairing & Styles
Review
Combine Comparisons
Body-based Zones
Destabilization
Loners
Correspondences
Work & its Organisation
Get Oriented
Clear Misconceptions
Inquiry Background
Elliot Jaques
THEE Path
The Essence of Work
Work & Using Language
See the Full 28 Levels
Develop the Q-expansion
Domains of Work-Responsibility
Language in the Domains
Choosing your Domain
Work, Capability & Role
Ordinary Work
Work in Organizations QH2
Avoid Confusion
Guide to this Section
THEE Path to QH2
Methods for Managing
Details of the 7 Methods
Using Consultants
How to Compare Methods
Plotting the Methods
Affinities & Differences
Activating & Constraining
Strengthening Organisation
Cycle-1: Inner Complexity
Cycle-2: Social Challenges
Diamonds of Complexity
Structuring Organizations
Levels Described
Common Issues
Progressive Contexts
Line-Management
Work Capability
Perspectives
Theory meets Reality
Purpose Perspective
Power Perspectives
Quality & Workload
Mistakes in Design
Formulation Options
Accountability Dynamics
Roles & Interactions
Unavoidable Tension
Applying the Duality
Preventing Disorder
Pursuing the Mission
Overcoming Resistance
Staying on Track
Review the Full Picture
Summary of Terms
How It Goes Wrong
Organising Management
Historical Background
Preview of Findings
Assign Duties: G1
Ensure Oversight: G2
Foci of Dialogue
Drive Improvement: G3
Pressures of Co-evolution
Design Roles: G4
Types of Function
Practical Issues
Determine Goals: G5
Domains of Ambition.
Expect Motivation: G6
Norms of Consent
Enable Commitment: G7
Review
Confidence v Pressure
Initiation v Accommodation
Cf. Organising Performance
Tensions in Organising
A Check-list
Participation Dynamics
Energy for Outcomes
Autonomy v Compulsion
Polarizing or Fusing
Mobilize Enthusiasm
Hierarchical Comfort
Role Enjoyment
Ambient States
Review of Participation
Organising Others
Deciding & Achieving
Get Oriented
Foundation Framework
Now Make it Personal
FAQs
Various Decision Issues
THEE Path
Seven Paths for Deciding
Rationalist Decision-Making
Test Yourself
Empiricist Decision-Making
Test Yourself
Pragmatic Decision-Making
Test Yourself
Dialectic Decision-Making
Test Yourself
Systemicist Decision-Making
Test Yourself
Structuralist Decision-Making
Test Yourself
Imaginist Decision-Making
Test Yourself
Review and Next Steps
Deciding on an Approach
People Talk Past Each Other
Answering Standard Questions
The Typology & The Root
Applications
Discover the Dualities
Idealist v Realist Perspectives
Comparing Decision Methods
Re-organizing the Set
Plotting Decision Methods
Zones in the TET
Antagonisms & Affinities
Selecting Two Approaches
Implications for Leadership
Management Culture
Background
The Spiral Trajectory
Numbering Conventions
Culture in Organizations
Cultures of Neglect
Drivers of Cultural Evolution
Handling New Values
St-1 The Practical Foundation
Pragmatic Degeneration
Getting Control of Activities
St-2 Accountability Structures
Installing Structural Values
Degeneration & Transition
St-3 Resolving Conflicts
Installing Dialectic Values
Degeneration & Transition
For Pragmatic Eyes Only
St-4 Working with Values
Getting it Together
Systemicist Culture Change
The Rationalist Watershed
Limitations & Potentials
Increasing Effectiveness
St-5 Facing Hard Reality
Installing Empiricist Values
Degeneration & Transition
St-6 Releasing Creativity
Installing Imaginist Values
Degeneration & Transition
St-7 Co-evolving with Society
Installing Systemic Values
Degeneration & Transition
A Paradox in Pragmatism
Review
Comparing the Transitions
Leading Cultural Development
FAQs from Managers
Organizational Achievement
Organizational Choices
The Dilemma in Deciding
Necessary Action CL1
Responsible Control CL2
Unavoidable Clashes CL3
Handling Disputes
Providing Direction CL4
The Power of Identity
Reducing Risk CL5
How Knowledge Helps
Releasing Creativity CL6
Why Aspirations Matter
Riding Social Forces CL7
The Price of Synergy
Review & Applications
Getting Action Right
Improving Control
Paradox: Accept & Strive
Organizational Dysfunction
Employee Achievement
Explaining Step by Step
Entrepreneurial Achievement
Explaining Step by Step
Expectations of Employment
Two Views on Employment
Contract and Compact
Employment's Primary Benefit
Doing Work CG1
Is the Employee Working?
Rising to Challenges
Work is Mental & Social
Legitimating Authority CG2
Authority Relationships
Instruments of Control
Getting Effective Control
Line-Management?
Troubleshooting?
Leadership?
Project Management?
Carrot-and-Stick?
Promising & Imposing?
What Goes Wrong
Authority, Hierarchy & Power
Beyond the "Bad Boss"
Delivering Results CG3
Using Management Resources
Making Assessments CG4
Hitting the Four Targets
Tracking Assessments
Inquiry and Reporting
Offering Flexibility CG5
Easing Work under Stress
Adaptation & Presence
Showing Commitment CG6
Responsibility & Proactivity
Providing Incentives CG7
Overview
Review and Summaries
Who is in Control?
Comfort v Ambition
Pressures in Ambition
Herzberg & Motivation
Employment & Root Levels
Employment Tensions
Employment Relationships
Intrinsic Tensions
Divergent Interests
Handling Employment
Step-by-Step Analysis
Polarize Handling
Stabilize the Organization
Provide Management
Strengthen Management
Review Compacts
Management's Framework
Complete Tree
Star of Interdependence
Diamond of Bureaucracy
Geometry for a Community
Tetrahedron of Productivity
Handling Being Employed
Step-by-Step Analysis
Polarize Your Relationship
Integrate Yourself
Develop Your Position
Strengthen Your Position
Review Your Compact
An Employee's Framework
Complete Tree
Star of Job Security
Diamond of Ambition
Geometry for Personalization
Tetrahedron of Morale
Review & Comparisons
Getting it Right/Wrong
The Human Element?
Review of this Inquiry



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