Mindset Index™
– mind intelligence for a world in flux
The Mindset Index, developed by international strategist Dr Morné Mostert and C-Suite Sherpa, is a world-first in the assessment and mapping of mindset. Senior leaders in business and government, with influence over significant resources, make decisions that impact large numbers of stakeholders over extended periods of time.
As a tool for predictive analytics, the Mindset Index provides a unique opportunity to gain greater insight into the philosophical foundations of strategic decision-making.
- It identifies the cognitive patterns (paradigms) that characterise the various lenses that people may adopt to make sense of and interpret the world of the present and the options for the future.
- It creates a philosophical framework of how someone thinks or approaches life in general.
- Unlike many assessment, it does not assess behaviour, but rather identifies the core paradigms as an aid to anticipate the most likely strategic direction leaders might take.
These philosophical patterns of thought illustrate a set of dominant intellectual preferences. While many instruments exist to evaluate past behaviour, the Mindset Index detects intellectual and philosophical preferences as indicators of likely future decision-making.
This instrument contains 19 main domains, some with sub-domains, which constitute 24 constructs in total. Each construct has a maximum of 8 questions. The instrument contains 174 questions in total.
Its application is wide and varied and includes the following:
- Mapping the compatibility between the individual and the organisational mindset
- Strategic decision-making
- Selection of senior leaders
- Identification of individual strategic development
- Foresight and strategic anticipation