ARTICLES
VALUES-BASED ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
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A series of articles in which Pat Dade discusses the importance of Values and their Dynamics in the successful
implementation of Organizational Change and Innovation. |
THE 21ST CENTURY HUMAN CONDITION
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Once we think beyond our immediate familial or social circles, it's very much a common experience to feel that "mainstream society" is on
a different planet and a different course than ourselves. Les Higgins and Pat Dade briefly explore the causes of that experience and try to
answer the Xfiles-esque question, "Why are there so many aliens amongst us?" |
CHANGING VALUES
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We've invited a long-time friend, John Powderly FRSA, to ramble freely over various topics, such as "Happiness",
with the only requirement that he use his professionally tempered "empathy" to explore things from differing
values perspectives. These are bite-sized pieces that are nevertheless thought provoking. |
CYBER SECURITY - THE "INSIDER" THREAT
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Pat Dade shares some thought s about an often neglected area of cyber security - whether "employees" feel enough sense of "belonging"
to "care" about the organization's security. |
THE LABOUR PARTY AND ITS ACCIDENTAL LEADER.
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Pat Dade continues the series about the fallout from the 2017
General Election with a look at the Labour "minor miracle". |
THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. A LAST HURRAH?
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Pat Dade continues the series about the fallout from the 2017
General Election with a look at the Conservative voter's journey to the ballot box. |
EYE OF THE STORM? OR THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF TRIBAL POLITICS?
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Pat Dade starts off a series of articles about the fallout from the 2017
General Election. |
HUNG AND DUP'ED
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Les Higgins takes a slightly wry look at the taste left in the mouths of the electorate following the 2017
General Election. |
A PRE-ELECTION VALUES SNAPSHOT
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Pat Dade discusses some implications drawn from a Values survey taken before the 2017 General
Election starting gun was fired. |
MASLOW GROUPS, VALUES MODES and OCEAN
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A sequence of articles in which Pat Dade discusses the connections between Personality and Values. |
LABOUR'S FUTURE
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John Cruddas MP's report into why Labour lost the 2015 General Election. The report makes extensive use
CDSM's Values Modes to analyse the situation from a Values perspective. |
BREXIT - WHO CARES?
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Survey after survey shows the UK's EU Referendum is too close to call. As many people say the UK should
exit as say it should stay - and there is a large bunch of people who don't know or don't care.
CDSM's data sheds light on the values of these various groups. |
HOTEL CALIFORNIA, BREXIT AND THE EUROPEAN EXPERIMENT
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Changing values have brought the EU to an existential brink. If there's a Brexit, who is next? In any event, what's the future? The "EU's" response to a unique and interdependent set of economic, social and cultural factors will determine the answers. More |
ALTERNATIVE FOR GERMANY - HOW FAR CAN IT GO?
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A look at the values behind the Alternative für Deutschland party that made significant gains in recent elections and has shaken the official consensus on immigration and asylum. More |
SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?
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A values perspective on returnee migrants. Disillusioned with their treatment and prospects within the EU, many migrants are making the choice to return home. More |
ARE PEOPLE'S VALUES DIFFERENT AT WORK THAN THEY ARE AT HOME?
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Recent surveys across Europe, examined using CDSM's 'Values and Organisational Cultures Styles' (VOCS), suggest not. More |
GREECE 2016 - Apathy, Anger, Historic Outrage and the Molotov cocktail hour.
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Recent evidence shows that today's Greece is less 'European', culturally, than even its
EU-aspirant neighbour to the east.
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IS THE LABOUR PARTY THE VICTIM OF A LEFT WING TAKE-OVER?
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Pat Dade presents the evidence, the verdict and some consequences drawn from recent research by CDSM.
The first of two reports "Inside the Labour Heartland"
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A HARD RAIN.
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New research shows European public opinion about relying on military force to combat terrorism is not so much a function of
nationality as it is of values. |
THE RISE OF OUTRAGE CULTURE.
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Questioning the right of some speakers to present their ideas on campus or in class rooms - a resurgence of Political Correctness,
or is it just déja vu all over again? |
POWER. TO THE PEOPLE?
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The UK Labour Party. After years of membership decline - mirrored by the decline in membership of
most political parties - a spontaneous grassroots movement has sprung into being. |
SEIZE THE TIME!
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The dynamics of leadership as a function of Values - and their personal, organizational and
cultural impacts on political office seekers. |
RE-EVOLUTION 1.0
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The UK Labour Party is being pulled apart as its three main "tribes" struggle for its soul.
Can they be unified? |
NEW, BLUE or TRUE LABOUR.
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Pat Dade begins a series of reflections on the parlous state of the UK Labour Party as of early August 2015. Having dramatically lost an election it was "sure to win", the Labour party is
now in danger of losing itself completely in a fog of arguments that to have
little resonance with its own membership and core support. |
FOSTER CARING VALUES.
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This report from our good friends at iMPOWER Consulting describes the practical application of Values in the oft misunderstood world of Foster Caring. "... foster carers, at an emotional and motivational level, are atypical of the wider population
... such an insight can be used to more accurately and consistently target prospective recruits
and to support them more effectively.
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BEYOND CLASS.
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Chris Rose of Campaign Strategy gives us his analysis
of some of what's to be learned politically from CDSM's recent British Values Survey update.
This fits a thread of such analyses to be found here, most recently from Nick Pecorelli and Pat Dade.
They continue to illustrate clearly the UK political battlespace and the positions of the Parties within it.
As always, not all Parties are fighting the same battle for the same space.
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THE NEW ELECTORATE.
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Nick Pecorelli's report from IPPR explains why understanding values is key to electoral success
for the UK's political parties. Using data from Cultural Dynamics' British Values Surveys, Nick explores the nature of the electorate;
where the parties get their support; the nature of the political battleground; and some key elements of communication and persuasion.
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'RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM' AND THE USE OF FORCE.
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We examine the relationship between strong religious belief and the everyday acceptance of physical force to 'get what you want'.
This uses data from four countries with different geographies, economies, languages and religions.
We propose that the mantra 'religion breeds violence' needs a rethink. |
A COLLECTION OF OLDER ARTICLES.
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Go Here for the articles archive. |
Chris Rose's epic journey through Cultural Dynamics' Values Space. More-