Turquoise is the self-sacrificial system that follows yellow, which expressed itself as a lone wolf.

Turquoise expands community and feels connected to everything that exists.

The universe is a single dynamic organism with a collective consciousness. Turquoise is autonomous and at the same time forms an inseparable unit with the whole. This is increasingly evident in the combination of spirituality and science.

Many people claim to be turquoise, but the proportion in humanity is still negligible.

Clare W. Graves noted that people can take an enormous step at this point in their development. They lose their fear of failure, gain creativity, and can solve much more complex problems. People are no longer guided from the outside, by social pressure, or by lower instincts, but autonomous from within. Hardly any people today have access to this value system.

One insight of yellow is that all previous value systems are valuable and necessary. Organizations need the impact of red, the structures and norms of blue, the strategic, targeted work from orange, and the green care for people.

Yellow no longer encounters complex problems such as global warming or migration, whether motivated by war or climate, with fear, but with a bouquet of solutions from all value systems that serve the entire system.

Orange individualism generates abundance and loneliness. Green strives to give meaning to life, inner peace and well-being.

Green strives for harmony with humankind and nature and brings emotions and intuition, even spirituality, back into a materialistic world. But green only arises where there is enough prosperity to afford it. Therefore, green is hardly to be found in second and third world countries today.

The emancipation of minorities, the welfare state, and roaring 60s show the development and increase in green. Green compensates for deficits that have arisen in previous value systems, such as inequality between men and women, the work-life balance, the gap between rich and poor, the exploitation of nature for human benefit, and the suppression of minorities.

In the economy, hierarchies are flattened, and self-controlling teams are created. In addition, decisions are made in consensus, which can lead to endless meetings without results.

Orange develops because blue restricts personal development. In orange, the awareness arises that man can determine his life. Like red, orange emphasizes on self-development and self-expression, but draws on the strategic thinking learned in blue. This is an example of how previous value systems are integrated and transcended.

Orange works within the structures of blue, but loves to discover the loopholes. Motivation is not the pursuit of power, but the kick and the pursuit of success. Meritocracies arise, hierarchies based on personal achievements, and if it is only the ability to play or even game the game.

Teenagers in the West at times progress into orange, at times fall back into red, depending on the developmental stage of their parents and peers. Higher education and the workplace today often demand that young people to develop into orange.

To get to grips with and tame the unbridled red quest for power and to bring order to the perceived chaos, blue is created with its calm, order and stability. People realize that it is good for the community when desires can be tamed. As a reaction to the highly solitary red, people organize themselves in new associations and communities, which are no longer based on blood ties, but on common interests.

The time horizon breaks away from the here and now and focuses on postponed rewards by a single God, an absolute truth, a right path. Norms, values, God-given hierarchies determine life.

In addition to the well-known faith communities, blue can also be identified in ideologies such as atheistic communism. Most companies of a certain size actually have a strong expression of blue in their organization and processes.

Children usually reach blue today when they start going to school.

New challenges such as the interaction with other tribes, but also the development of the ego lead to a new system of values. When man becomes aware of his personal needs and abilities, the community is perceived as restrictive. The result is an unbridled zest for life, combined with an unlimited quest for power. Courage, strength and tyranny are close together.

Small businesses, certainly in the startup arena, often display red qualities and leadership styles. Materialism and capitalism have their roots here, being framed and fully formed in blue, to come to bloom in orange..

Children begin to discover the world from the security of the home, but also their own will. The courage to conquer the playground is often coupled with trying out one’s own will as a high-chair tyrant. Gangs and the mafia are today’s examples of red energy. But we also learn here to make decisions.