Model of Freedom

Our Culture Model, The Model of Freedom, enables us to draw profiles of vocational, organizational or national cultures. These profiles visualize why people act, perceive and interpret as they do. By comparing different profiles we learn about similarities and differences in preferred management and working styles. Thus, the Model leverages cultural advantage, analyzing past experiences, clarifying the present and predicting future behaviors of global team members and managers. The Model of Freedom is rooted in real-world experiences of professionals working in international companies. It has developed into a solid tool, tested with about 5,000 managers over a period of ten years. Besides its value for vocational and organizational cultures, the MoF enables us to categorize the preferred management styles in 52 countries.

The figure below gives you an impression of its simplicity on the one hand, and its powerful potential to explain and reconcile cultural differences, on the other hand.

Our Culture Model, The Model of Freedom, is fully explained in the book "The Cultural Advantage". In the Dutch publication, "Culturele Intelligentie", it is called "Cultureel Passe-partout". For a succinct description we refer to the article "Managing Mindsets", and for a demonstration of an application we refer to the article "Profit, conflict and cultures".