Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

Leading Comments: Building Bridges

Leading Comments / March 2011

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In recent times, thanks to individuals who believe that ILR is an academic journal, I have had the opportunity to hone my elevator speech about Integral Leadership Review. I respond by explaining that ILR is a bridging publication and that we attract subscribers and authors from a …

Featured Article: Provisos from a Users Guide to Integral Developmental Theories

Feature Articles / March 2011

Tom Murray

Integral theories of adult development attempt to capture, synthesize, apply, and extend the state of the art from many scholarly threads, shedding new light on our understanding of the developmental process. Yet human development is exceedingly complex and taxes our abilities to understand and model it. Is our shared understanding of development sufficient to the expectations we have of it and the tasks we apply it to? Zachary Stein notes how “complex philosophical approaches …

Featured Article: Leading in Uncertain Times: Leadership Characteristics of the Self-Transforming Mind

Feature Articles / March 2011

Camden C. Danielson

Do you know your people?  And do you love them?

Mother Teresa
Address to Indian HR Executives

The global environment is increasing the degree of complexity for organizations operating anywhere in the world. With it arises the need for a different kind of inquiry operating within our lives and organizations. The requirement for greater openness to uncertainty will challenge our sense of purpose, identity, and self-efficacy.  The founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung, …

Leadership Emerging: Descriptions of Books, Articles and Other Media

Leadership Emerging / March 2011


Kirsty Spence and Mark McDonald, Linking Developmental Action Logics to Transformational Leadership Behaviors, Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, December 2010.

Aside from a couple of early articles of an introductory nature and Clint Fuhs integral examination of eight leadership books, articles on leadership in JITP have been rare. This should not be too surprising in that this journal addresses every possible field to which an integral approach or perspective might be applied. There was …

Feature Article: Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education, Part 5

Feature Articles / March 2011

Sustainability through Transdisciplinarity and Integrality: Institute for Sustainable Futures, the University of Technology, Sydney Australia

Russ Volckmann and Sue L.T.McGregor

We have been exploring “academic” programs in transdisciplinarity for about one year. It may be a mistake to refer to them as “academic,” because one of the features of these programs is that they are designed to transcend and include academic disciplines, as well as the university and the world around it. One of the key …

Leadership Quote: Joseph Byaruhanga & Sidney Hook

Leadership Quote / March 2011

Leadership is like a panicle of rice because at the height of the season, at the height of its power, it is beautiful, it is green, it nourishes the world, it reaches for the heavens; but right before the harvest it bends over with great gratitude and humility to touch the earth from where it came.

—   Joseph Byaruhanga, From a Ted presentation by Jacqueline Novogratz

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars

CODA

Coda / March 2011

Reflections on Guggenbhul-Craig’s Power in the Helping Professions.

Recently, Jeannie and I had the pleasure of being the guests of Don Benson and Helen Spector (Benson) while they were vacationing in Sedona, Arizona. Don is a much-ion-demand consultant on supply change management, as well as an innovator and entrepreneur. In addition, he is probably the most widely read individual that I have ever known. He seems to consume books as frequent intellectual snacks in his …

Announcements

Announcements / March 2011

The Center for Human Emergence Netherlands
Fifth
annual Spiral Dynamics integral EuroConFab, April 8 -10, 2011
Almere, The Netherlands

Register at http://www.schoolofsynnervation.nl/en/news_201012_Confab.php

The purpose is to create an internationally shared field of best practices of emergence and evolutionary change.

Share  and discuss your findings and challenges as a SDi practitioner

We invite you to put forward your experiences, quests and questions and exchange, share and co-create them with the other participants. Send us a short …

Notes from the Field: Evolving States and Stages of Consciousness

Notes from the Field / March 2011

Evolving States and Stages of Consciousness

Venita Ramirez, Geoff Fitch and Terri O’Fallon

How do people develop? What do the later stages of consciousness look like? Are there methods and practices we can employ to facilitate the process? Robert Kegan (1994), Suzanne Cook-Greuter (2002) and others have contributed a great deal to the field of adult development in recent years.  Still, we have much more to learn.  For example, until now, we haven’t really known what …