The Values Matrixis about the way values control our lives and our organisations. Values determine our thoughts and emotions. By nature, all people are trapped in the values matrix: our brain steers our thoughts, our behaviour and our emotions by way of values. This is done according to the set patterns of the values matrix. The patterns not only control our individual thinking and feeling, but they also control processes in organisations. To understand the values matrix is to understand people and organisations much better. The Values Matrixbreaks away from many conventions in thinking about ourselves and offers a revolutionary outlook on the functioning of organisations. This book is the result of large-scale motive measurements, of intense brain work and literature study and of countless sessions with groups and individuals. The authors tested their ideas on more than 100,000 people from a wide range of categories, from hairdressers and bus drivers to captains of industry and
