Values and  Behaviour 

Foundational

Manifesto Part 3.5: Core Human Values and Essential Behaviours for Decision-Making at all Levels

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We believe

Acting on the following core values and behavioural essentials provides the highest impact when problems are complex

A hard-to-ignore Guiding Question

What is the attitude of a person? In or out of line with relevant Laws of Nature, Core Human Values and Essential Behaviours?

Core Human Values

Health1

The health of the planet, societies, systems, organizations, and people

Includes biodiversity

Safety1 

Includes climate and peace

Basic needs: water, air, shelter, food, energy1

Includes being in balance with Nature such that Nature continues to provide the water, air, food, shelter, and energy all living beings need.

Truth

Includes truth-seeking 

Freedom: In Harmony 

Everyone should be able to live freely. However, the freedom of one person ends where the freedom, health, and safety of another person begins.

1) Based on “Sustainocracy: The new democracy.” Jean-Paul Close.  https://sustainocracy.blog/what-is-sustainocracy/

Behavioural Essentials

In support of core values and to (re)build trust

Be Authentic

Be yourself

Truth-Seeking

Includes

  • Exploring multiple perspectives
  • Constructive criticism
  • Responding to new insights and changing situations

Respect Each Other  

Yourself, the other and your surrounding

Listen to each other

  • Do I fully understand what the other person means?
  • What can I do with what I have heard?
  • People have the feeling they are being listened to

Fairness, togetherness, equal access to opportunities

Act With Adaptive Integrity

Today, environments can change quicker than promises can be delivered. People recognize intuitively when a promise conflicts with lessons learned and Laws of Nature or makes no sense anymore. A new integrity is needed.

We give our word (a promise, commitment, etc.) when we have sufficient confidence that we can keep our word.4 As soon as we know that we cannot keep our word, we inform all parties counting on us and clean up any mess that we caused in their lives.2

People, objects, and systems are in or out of integrity.3

Take Ownership

Ownership: 

  • Personal responsibility and accountability 
  • Together with those involved and impacted

Co-creation: Representatives of all groups involved or affected work together to solve a tough problem on equal terms 

2) Integrity: Without it Nothing Works. Jensen, Michael C. Harvard Business School. Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. April 6, 2014. https://ssrn.com/abstract=1511274.
3) Seminar. Jensen, Michael C. Erasmus University, Rotterdam. 2011. 
4) To meet an executability need: Adjusted by E. Oetringer