Munafo Core Values: MCV04 — Study and Grow From Your History
MCV04:
Study and Grow From Your History
Important components of this core value:
- Learn from past mistakes
- Gain a clear understanding of what constitutes your strengths, interests and passions; and use this knowledge to maximum advantage.
- Help your teams, organizations, etc. learn from their past experience and recognise their strengths and passions.
- Be aware of, and be prepared for, repetitions in the natural cycles of social history.
- Understand the fundamental truths of human nature, and of your gender in particular, that come out of the distant past and will not change.
- Noting and respecting the shocks and stresses of changing times, strive for resilience during a future that is inevitably and predictably subject to further change.
- Contribute to a growing and lasting legacy.
Some "natural cycles of social history" are not very well known. In particular see the books by William Strauss and Neil Howe, such as "The Fourth Turning". It is important to look at the commonalities, while not ignoring the differences, between each of the past repetitions of the cycle (great depression; civil war; revolutionary war; etc.) to see what principles are at work.
With respect to changing times, and the ways in which the past does not repeat cyclicly, one may look to such works as "Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler, and see that changes of varying kinds e.g. technological have precipitated changes in ways of life throughout the world, and that such change increases in requency and magnitude over multiple generations.
MCV04 for Teams
When this core value is present:
The team knows its history. (+mcv4a)
The team knows the history of its members. (+mcv4b)
The team grows from the knowledge of this history. (+mcv4c)
The team uses its collective wisdom to help a member who is in a situation common to another member's experience. (-mcv4d)
The team conducts itself in ways that are faithful to their ancient (often unspoken) archetypical nature. (+mcv4e)
The team employs resilient and adaptable standards and policies so as to endure inevitable effects of changing times. (+mcv4f)
When this core value is lacking:
The team does not know its history. (-mcv4a)
The team does not know the history of its members. (-mcv4b)
The team falls into an old pitfall. (-mcv4c)
The team fails to use its collective wisdom to help a member who is in a situation common to another member's experience. (-mcv4d)
The team is not faithful to, or forgets, their ancient (often unspoken) archetypical nature. (-mcv4e)
The team employs rigid and specific standards and policies, making it vulnerable to the inevitable effects of changing times. (-mcv4f)
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