Keith E Rice - 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'

What others have said about this book...

"I have to say that I enjoyed it immensely.

I feel that this book is so valuable in that it seems to be the first one to weave together all the Upper Right components of Ken Wilber's 4-Quadrants model in with Spiral Dynamics and the various typology systems. In my humble opinion, this is a landmark event and it represents a foray into completely new and uncharted territory.

My favorite part was Keith's discussion about why we have emotional reactions to values & beliefs, but not to discussions/debates about skills or knowledge. To have this Upper Right correlate to explain why we fight with each other (and even engage in war) was so incredibly helpful."
- Barbara Larisch, New York City Integral Salon, USA, February 2006

"I found some of the ideas at the beginning a bit hard going - a little intense! However, this was compensated for by a review at the beginning of each new chapter which helped to consolidate the previous learning. I thought the way it built sequentially, introducing a new element each chapter, was very effective.

I really liked the idea of being able to use it as a self help book, as well as a tool for exploring how some models may fit together and how to use them practically.

This all comes with a suitably severe warning about using these models wisely ("great knowledge brings with it great responsibility” - did that come from ‘Spiderman’?) and is presented in a way that will appeal to both the academic and the self-developer without offending either scientist or spiritual believer."
- Helen Ezard, NLP Practitioner, Driffield, Yorkshire, UK, March 2006

"The most remarkable thing about 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' is the way Keith Rice has put together a coherent jigsaw made up of so many pieces of the key
behavioural science theories. Whilst so many practitioners are very precious about their pet interests, Keith freely acknowledges and credits the work of
leading theorists, adding value to our understanding by drawing the parallels between the various schools of thought, both ancient and contemporary.

The book provides an excellent revision source for Keith's training courses and further expands our understanding of what makes us tick. Demanding, but wholly absorbing and enlightening."
- David Burnby, David Burnby & Associates, Hull, UK, May 2006

"Keith E Rice has done a really wonderful job with his book, 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'. It meshes so many concepts new to me with Spiral Dynamics that I feel I'm soaring to new heights of intellectual life!'
- Simon Lafrenière, 'Student of Life', Montreal, Canada, June 2006

“'Knowing Me, Knowing You' is very readable and will give insights both to people who know about Spiral Dynamics and those who don't. The meshing of all the different theories of Psychology and Sociology is masterful....it must be groundbreaking!"
- Cathy Byrne, Headteacher, The Parks Primary School, Hull, UK, July 2006

"I highly recommend Keith Rice's new book, 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', to everyone. It is not only faithful to Spiral Dynamics, it is also everything I've been asking for in the past five years ago. The book is an answer to all those who ask: tell us how to incorporate Spiral Dynamics into our work and practical applications. Spiral Dynamics provides a great meta framework. A person, however, still needs to overlay all their own knowledge of other models and methods on Spiral Dynamics and to overlay Spiral Dynamics on them. Keith Rice has done this remarkably well in this book!

Hopefully we all will have a chance to read it and it will motivate more books by those of us who have incorporated Spiral Dynamics into our personal and professional lives."
- Bill Hajdu, USA, August 2006

"'Knowing Me, Knowing You' is an amazing book! Thank You to Keith Rice . It has inspired me! I'm in the midst of grasping the concept of Spiral Dynamics and this book is helping me so much to understand all of it. It is an inspiration for humanity to change."
- Josette Curry, Canada, February 2007

“It is certainly thought provoking and has a 'can-do' feel whereby all the basic tools are there for both the professional and the layman alike to take action!...there is such a lot of work in the book. It must have taken ages to write. It should be required reading in local and national government departments! I even analyse the news as well as other people within its terms of reference. I guess it has made me see and understand things differently...it made me do a lot of thinking and few are the days when I don't analyse something in terms of reference from sociopsychology.”

- Pamela Crofts, Hull, UK, July 2008

“There’s more than a comparison of models in what I’m reading here. There appears to be (or at least that is how it is landing with me) . . . a ‘weaving’ of the measuring tools with SDI (possibly?) being the spine of the understanding.”

- Brenda MacMillan, Calgary, Canada, August 2008

“I have read ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ and found it to be of great value. It affirmed a lot of my existing opinions and introduced me to a wide range of appealing new ideas. What more can one ask for in a book?”
- Dave Watkins, USA, September 2008

"I purchased 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' at Amazon, especially since I'm interested in the connection between NLP/Metaprograms and SD. What you write is very, very interesting. You make a lot of relevant interconnections explicit, which deepens my awareness. So reading your book is a valuable pleasure. And also your website is loaded with interesting stuff. So thank you for sharing all this material!"

- Erik Philippus, Weert, Netherlands, October 2008

"I recommend Keith’s book. A very good description of Spiral Dynamics and a larger psychological overview of related ideas. It does get a little technical or academic but if you are happy with that it makes an excellent and even potentially life changing read."

- Jon Twigge, businessman and founder of the 'Right to Be' Blog, Leceister, UK, October 2009

"Whenever I go back to your book I find my nascent ideas fully worked through!!! I continue to marvel at the breadth and density of the ideas and interweaving theories that you integrate!"

- Marcus Pontin, community support worker, Sheffield, November 2009

“If I had not known Spiral Dynamics to some extent already then Knowing Me, Knowing You would have been a complete revelation. As it was, it reiterated some things, made others much clearer, filled in a lot of gaps and brought many new ideas as well.

...I found Knowing Me, Knowing You to be a little technical and therefore rather hard work but in the best possible sense of being a very good text that needed careful study to take it all in. For anyone who is serious about understanding human psychology and social values I would say that Knowing Me Knowing You is essential reading.”