Refining our educational, business, political, and social hierarchies to become true democracies, to not only improve their function, but to improve the health and well-being of those who live and work within those hierarchies, will in essence, restore and rebuild our humanity.
Every hierarchy has the potential to cultivate a culture of humanity & social justice.
This new contribution to our understanding of human behavior within hierarchies provides the key insights to guide the restoration and repair of our dysfunctional hierarchies which, unfortunately, all too often oppress, manipulate, and exploit people.
Vision
Every hierarchy has the potential to cultivate a culture of humanity & social justice.
“Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief objective of all technological endeavors… in order that the creations of our minds shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.” - Albert Einstein, 1931
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Key Insights from the Belief-Behavior Systems Archetype©
“By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction of academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes rational judgment and action.” -Albert Einstein, 1954
Comparing Theories and Frameworks
Many thought leaders, academics, and scientists have recognized the same patterns of human learning and human behavior, however their sorting of the patterns ended before they could discover all of the rules and pathways that cause those patterns.
“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.” -Albert Einstein, 1933
Reconciling Perpendicular Truths Within Hierarchies
Although there are benefits of forming a hierarchy, such as improved ability to solve survival and quality-of-life problems, the creation of a hierarchy at the same time creates a power differential in relation to the allocation and control of the resources for learning. The creation of this power differential comes with a very fundamental flaw: it incubates the unconscious bias, the knowledge or experience gaps, of the supervisor.
“It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification.” -Albert Einstein, 1952
Popular Culture Examples of Belief-Behavior Systems©
Exploring Belief-Behavior Systems© by looking at personalities, characters, and figures in art, literature, film, and history can enhance understanding and insight.
“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” -Albert Einstein, 1921
“Good people like yourself and like me, have unconscious bias; having unconscious bias is a human condition. But those of us who learn to recognize and overcome our unconscious bias, become more impactful and powerful stewards of society.”
Mihal Emberton, MD, MPH, MS
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