161 - Bill Torbert: A Response to Dave Snowden’s Critique of Developmental Theory
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The Individual Level Theory Is Complated by a Parallel Scientific Development Theory
I spent years trying to develop a usable measure of corporate development I have the theory and it's quite specifically describes the activities at each stage on a corporate level. People at earlier levels of a large organization are their their group or unit may have an action logic which is quite different from the corporation as a whole so you're not gonna necessarily get a clear view of the organization from the individual's perspective. We've been able to get expert raters who know the theory well and have been involved in consulting to organizations at different stages we can get a group of three raters to score the action logic of the organization in a highly reliable way that we can use in our empirical studies, he says.
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