Three Types of Change:

1. Horizontal Change: Working within ones current set of cognitive capabilities yet changing some of the details. Thinking remains essentially the same but techniques and information might improve.
2. Oblique Change: Dominant thinking remains the same while incorporating some of the thinking from an adjacent system. This can be a shift to a subsequent, more complex cognitive rage of capacities or a reawakening of earlier cognitive capacities.
3. Vertical Change: Can be either a shift up to awaken new cognitive capacities which include and transcend the previous cognitive capacities. A new range of thinking and capacities are available or vertical change can be a shift down to a previous system of cognition where acquired capacities are abandoned due to internal or external incongruence.

For more on this topic You can look at the book “Spiral Dynamics” by Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan
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Horizontal 

1. Horizontal Change: Working within ones current set of cognitive capabilities yet changing some of the details. Thinking remains essentially the same but techniques and information might improve.

Oblique

​2. Oblique Change: Dominant thinking remains the same while incorporating some of the thinking from an adjacent system. This can be a shift to a subsequent, more complex cognitive rage of capacities or a reawakening of earlier cognitive capacities.

Vertical

​3. Vertical Change: Can be either a shift up to awaken new cognitive capacities which include and transcend the previous cognitive capacities. A new range of thinking and capacities are available or vertical change can be a shift down to a previous system of cognition where acquired capacities are abandoned due to internal or external incongruence.