HOW WE WORK
Evolutionary theory provides deep insight into business, yet many business leaders miss out on the benefits that applying this lens within their programs would bring, instead expecting data analytics alone to provide the silver bullet.
At the core of our approach is the understanding that we interact with the modern world using brains that evolved to solve a recurring and limited set of ancestral social challenges.
The specific motives that drove ancestral life still prevail in the modern world.
They shape all stages of judgement and decision-making processes.
Our A-B-C model addresses the mismatches between our evolved emotional responses
and the novel modern environments in which they operate.
FEEL-DO-THINK. In that order.
AFFECT
WHAT WE FEEL
Feelings are the mind’s way of assigning
priority labels to behaviours and thoughts
by activating specific mental ‘modules’.
BEHAVIOUR
WHAT WE DO
It’s feelings that ‘decide’ the module
that will be in charge,
and it is modules that then decide
what action to take.
COGNITION
WHAT WE THINK
The ‘conscious self’ module
doesn’t create any thoughts;
it receives them from other modules.
(Yes, strictly speaking, the whole thing
is cognition, but ABC is a tidy acronym…)