Charles Hampden-Turner (1934) is a British management philosopher, and Research Associate at Cambridge since 1990. He is the creator of Dilemma Theory, and co-founder and Director of Research and Development at the Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner Group, in Amsterdam.
He grew up in Cambridge and was educated at Wellington College, a military public school attended by his father.
On finishing military service, he attended Trinity College, to read Social History, For Tripos II, he read Law. Politically, he was a keen debater.
He applied at the Harvard Business School and inn his second year he discovered a talent for Organisational Behaviour, starting a lifelong interest.
He joined the faculty as a research associate in the Department of Organisational Behaviour. He published his Doctoral Thesis as 'Radical Man' in 1969.
He joined an inter-disciplinary program on graduation focusing with a group of Black Community organizers. This work on human rights continued, until President of Harvard indicated he was keen to restrain scholars from working on social problems, saying "Scholars should not involve themselves in the nation's slums and ghettoes." Hampden-Turner disagreed, and moved on.
He joined a radical think tank,The Cambridge Institute, founded by historian Gar Alperowitz and sociologist Christopher Jencks, staffed largely with Harvard and MIT members. The group avoided fashionable socialist and Marxist views, preferring a free-thinking approach in search of new social solutions. For three years, Hampden-Turner worked in ghettoes, and poor rural communities, from the Bedford-Stuyvesant Corporation in New York, to Eskimo reindeer herding in Alaska and getting in the watermelon harvest in Southwest Georgia, developing social and intellectual policy solutions.
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By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
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This book changed my life in the sense that it served as a foundation for my first Master's thesis on Predicting Revolution, work that has not yet been surpassed.I myself developed one side of the matrix, finding through the secondary literature that revolutions were generally distinct within each of the following domains: Political-Legal Military-Law Enforcement Socio-Economic Ideo-Cultural Techno-Demographic Natural-Geographic It was not until I chanced across this work, which the author points out is the first ever theoretical dissertation at the Harvard Business School. I share the author's disdain for the Know-Nothings stepped in their rote learning who label all that they do not understand as "naive idealism." They've become prostitutes, while the author and those like him continue to "live free." What this book did for me personally was provide and explain "Radical Man" in terms precisely suited to explode my first thesis from something pedestrian to something that today, a quarter of a century later, is still "best in class" (available at OSS.Net in Library, Steele's Early Papers). He provided a model of psycho-social development with the following elements: + Perception + Identity + Competence + Investment + Suspension & Risk + Transcendance + Synergy + Integration + Complexity Along the other side of the matrix, that allowed me to create a framework in which the secondary literature could be pigeon-holed into a third of the boxes, and then I did primary research to both complete the other two thirds, and to operationalize each element (identify specific collectable data with which to determine the degree of risk, scope, etc.). Charles Hampden-Turner is in my view one of the great minds of our time, and I point readers to my review of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable so as to meet the second mind that I most admire in my time (there are others, of course, like E. O. Wilson, Alvin Toffler, but see my reviews for the details). See also: Maps of the Mind: Charts and Concepts of the Mind and its Labyrinths Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics The Tao of Democracy: Using co-intelligence to create a world that works for all The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political--Citizen's Action Handbook for Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, & Corruption This one is free online at Army War College Strategic Studies Institute The New Craft of Intelligence: Achieving Asymmetric Advantage in the Face of Nontraditional Threats
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