Other Important Dimensions to Consider in the World View for the ALM Method are:

• culture of personal times and temporal priorities: include the search for emotions (intangible goals) or tangible goals among the priorities; temporal experience and temporal dominances, awareness of the differences between personal culture (of the individual), organizational culture and national culture: how I live time, how my company lives it, how my national culture lives it – in haste either in relaxation, in planning or in chaos. In this context, one of the main objectives of the ALM method is the re-appropriation of the sense of pleasure of time, eliminating the forced conditioning produced by the cognitive prototypes of one’s own culture (self-determination of time);

• religious beliefs, both in the difference between religions, but above all in the degree of overt or latent religiosity that the individual experiences and applies in daily and working life;
• political ideologies;
• the conception of the human being and the deep reason for existence;
• the conception of interpersonal relationships (exploitation, utility, sharing, symbiosis, competition) and the versatility of interpersonal relationships (ability to live on multiple levels, characterized by different motivational systems);
• the conception of the relationship between man and nature, the degree of spirituality vs. materialism;
• internal orientation (self-exploration, exploration of the internal and psychological world, introspection) vs. orientation to the outside (exploration of the outside world);
• the orientation to being vs. the orientation to having;
• orientation towards positivity or negativity;
• orientation to the past, present or future (and other specific quadrants identified in the proprietary T-chart model of the ALM method);
• personal competitiveness and orientation towards competitiveness;
• egocentrism, ethnocentrism, selfishness, centering on the self or on one’s own needs, vs. heterocentrism, altruism, also centering on the other and on the needs of others.

Comparison exercise of one’s own vision of the world on some personal elements (compare & contrast) Explain and compare (compare & contrast) your own world view with a colleague or exercise partner, search for differences and similarities, on the following topics:

• meaning of love and difference from “loving”;
• possible meanings of the term “betrayal” in a marriage;
• debate between two different visions of life: “rejoice while you can, live for the day” or “sacrifice yourself for a better future, save, invest”;
• the role of destiny on people’s success and career;
• to what extent it is possible to predict behavior based on a person’s nationality, in which fields we can be more certain, in which less;
• whether the people in the company perform better when you command or let them do it.

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