An essay on whether whole societies can be shifted from one developmental stage to another, weighing the ethics of doing so and outlining temporary versus permanent methods for moving a population forward through the stages.
A hiring guide arguing every role has an optimal developmental stage, addressing how to match candidates to jobs, what to do when employees evolve into a counterproductive stage, and how to isolate roles that need a different mindset.
An essay on how money reflects the emotional and symbolic value we place on things, exploring the endowment effect, overvaluing what we own, and how the pursuit of worthiness drives self-sabotaging spending and debt.
A workplace guide to shifting yourself and your team into the optimal developmental stage for a task, using targeted questions for quick shifts and resources and homework for lasting change, with examples for customer service and innovation.
A guide to common mini-cycles where people swirl between two or three developmental stages without progressing, describing patterns like the Martyr and the News Hound and the homework that breaks each loop.
An ethics discussion on using knowledge of the developmental stages at work, cautioning against moving people between stages without their awareness or permission and favoring forward, consensual, temporary shifts for genuine connection.
An explanation of why people get stuck in a single developmental stage, how each stage feels when it stalls and amplifies, and the core remedy of completing each stage’s tasks and questions to move forward.
A business-application guide to the eleven-stage development model, explaining how to temporarily shift teams into a stage suited to a task and match job functions such as HR, management, innovation, and PR to the stage best fit for their work.
An examination of how people who become stuck too long in Stages Three, Five, or Seven can amplify that stage into criminal or self-destructive behavior, and why learning to read someone’s stage helps you protect yourself.
A guide to identifying your organization’s primary developmental stage, the stage that draws your customers and shapes hiring and branding, with examples of the kinds of businesses that typically operate in each of the eleven stages.
An analysis of how whole societies sit at a developmental stage using a normal-curve distribution of their populations, illustrating what nations in Stages Three through Seven look like and how political, social, and cultural revolutions unfold.
A practical guide to recognizing which developmental stage coworkers and customers occupy by listening to how they seek validation, so you can meet them where they are and help them move toward a more productive stage.
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A brief announcement of a YouTube playlist collecting videos on how the Purna Asatti model and the cycle of human development apply to societies at large, with an invitation to subscribe for new additions.
A short announcement of a YouTube playlist in which the author discusses using the developmental stages for management and leadership, marketing and sales, employee retention and hiring, and negotiation.
A short reflection on business as a human endeavor, observing that companies are filled with unique people at different phases of their journeys, all seeking real connection to themselves and others and purpose in their work.
A New Year’s reflection on choosing which emotional and behavioral baggage to carry forward, focusing on discarding fear and the negative conditioning that makes the author reject gifts, love, and support.
A personal essay tracing the author’s lifelong shame back to a childhood moment of hiding her artistic, expressive self to win approval, arguing that shame arises from denying your own truth rather than from others’ words.
A teaching reflection on letting go, arguing that you do not need to hate or devalue a job, home, or situation in order to release it, and that change rooted in love and gratitude attracts better outcomes than change rooted in dissatisfaction.
A personal reflection written while planning a life of full-time travel, reframing the real worst-case scenario not as running out of money but as squandering freedom, and asking what it means to truly live and serve.
A short piece using the childhood genie-and-three-wishes idea to challenge readers to imagine far bigger than money and cars, listing the author’s own expansive desires and urging more creative, revolutionary visions of what is possible.
A reflection on why those worthy of the title Guru shy away from it, exploring unworthiness, fear of deification, and the author’s decision to own the title while normalizing guruhood as a natural waypoint for everyone.
A recommendation of David R. Hawkins’s book Letting Go, summarizing its core lessons that talking about an emotion is not the same as releasing it, and offering a step-by-step practice for watching an emotion dissolve.
A teaching essay arguing that manifesting radical change requires letting go not only of what you want to change but of yourself and everyone else as they are now, closing with a meditation for dissolving into the divine.
A manifestation exercise focused on the inner self, guiding readers to catalog how they will feel and which beliefs must change to match a desired new life, since experiences file new beliefs into the subconscious.
An answer to a reader whose partner is uninterested in relationship exercises, advising them to be the partner they want to have by modeling trust-building, sharing needs and fears, and initiating connection around intimacy and finances by example.