The development of the brain and its concomitant mode of thinking can be characterized at each stage of development. Following development, adult thinking can be generally oriented at a particular stage. Using this as a map, new ways can be constructed to organize groups of people into healthy working teams, to construct development programs or performance measures that fit with that stage of development.

Most importantly, if you have a guideline to know from where people are starting, you can use it to grow people to their next level of personal, professional and brain development. This is due to Neuroplasticity, the the ability of the brain to adapt and rewire as it learns.

The table below shows the developmental path of the brain in parallel with the evolution of consciousness (thinking) and the Ego (Sense of Self) . The remarkable link to this picutre is that the development of the brain, ego and thinking is a mirror, a recapitualtion of the evolution of the Human Being itself.

This is one of the most remarkable revelations of the substantial and well-researched bodies of data that encompasses human development across all disciplines including the sciences, biology, psychology, anthropology and philosophy. (After Wilber; Gebser; Loevinger; Graves; Steiner; Piaget; et al).