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My main point was that you ought to include both ‘horizontal’ measures of personality type – and ‘vertical’/developmental measures such Maslow-based Values Modes, Spiral Dynamics ‘Value Memes’ or Prof Bill Torbert’s ‘Action Logics’.

Interestingly, OCEAN is a ‘horizontal’ (non-developmental) measure in general – though its ‘Openness’ dimension correlates with Torbert’s Action Logics (which are a vertical measure of cognitive complexity).

Vertical differences in developmental stage (aka ‘Ways of Knowing’) seem – potentially – to have a huge impact on knowledge-sharing behaviours.

Though no-one is thinking about this much. Yet.

If you read this blog post – https://bitly.com/bJraEV (the short section under the sub-heading ‘Your information sharing approach depends on your leadership maturity’), you’ll see how important this variable could be. (And Torbert’s point about why ‘Learning Organisations’ never took off relates to leaders’ psychology too.)

Something I’ve always meant to do is follow up with a prominent figure in the application of developmental models – Harold Lasker – who then moved into KM and mostly left that stuff behind.

He might have so much to say – about the point I’m making. (If I actually had his e-mail address I should just contact him).

I’m just looking at an interview he did, where I’ve noticed that he states: “One of the things we found was that if you brought strangers together in a group and you asked them months later who they liked most in the group, mutual selections were invariably between people within a half [developmental] stage of each other. Ego stage is not just a psychological variable; it’s a social variable. It defines a type of “mindedness” in which birds of a feather literally flock together. You can graph and predict the flocking.” Full interview here: http://integralleadershipreview.com/5496-fresh-perspective-development-and-the-entrepreneur-as-leader-an-interview-with-harry-m-lasker

Blimey, I’d forgotten he ever said that – it really helps to show that vertical/developmental variables might be a key factor.

I think that’s enough for me. I’d love to hear how you progress with this…

Cheers,

Matthew
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Matthew

• Within the Universe of …”We are KM – regulated by Nature and by nature we are KM model”, the “turbulence” – Intangible Assets capitalization – Demographics traits are just the current dynamics of economic and business as sub-system of the Universe.

• Regarding of those issues, let me suggest how to addressing the situation by establishing the most likely KM road map to the (near) future of Knowledge system by studying our KM time plan at http://ht.ly/djk6S -(“Course and prognosis of our Knowledge Management (KM) system : Time line (2008 – 2012+) of Mobee Knowledge Services – (August 2012 edition)”)

IBM have published some articles on CoE in the past, and these would probably work as a standard.

regards
gerald