See Non-Cancerous development.
The development metaphor calls for each agent (a second generation navigator) to be **continuously aware of at least three levels** (Three Level Awareness) when making decisions, * first, themselves (identity) as a system, * second, the systems/organizations that they are part of and which depend upon them, and * third, the systems/organizations of which they are composed and that therefore they depend upon.
There are organizations (systems) that are the parts of me/us and there are other organizations (systems) that I/we are parts of.
We must understand our developmentally relevant, **intimate interrelationships** as a whole: inside-of-us**—**us**—**outside-of-us.
This essential, three-level, developmental awareness is more intimate and more proximate than the awareness denoted by the concept of the environment.
When I/we choose to **grow,** taking too little account of the symbiotic, dependent, generative, encompassing system and the neighboring parts, our growth becomes **cancerous** to our neighboring parts and to the whole on which even we depend.
**Deaths** of our parts, leads to death of us. Death of the organizations we are part of, leads to death of us. Viability depends upon these kinds of nested, intimate, dependent, developmental relationships.