Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

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Leadership Emerging / January 2011

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ReVison: Special Issue on Transformative Leadership, Edited by Alfonso Montouri and Urusa Fahim, Winter 2010, Volume 30, Nos. 3 & 4.

Published almost a year ago, this highly relevant issue of ReVision includes articles by Montouri, Jay Ogilvy, Charles Hampden-Turner, Riane Eisler , Roger Harrison and others. On the opening page of the introductory piece …

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Announcements / January 2008

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Integral Review

Integral Review 5 published in December 2007. You can access this free online journal at http://www.integral-review.org.

Table of Contents

Editorial A Time of …

Vision for a Self-Integrating Academy

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Jantsch (1972) envisions that a transdisciplinary university would design itself so it integrates know-how (knowledge per se), know-what (deeper meanings), know-where-to-go, and know-why. All the while, it would position itself as an institution actively engaged in society, with society. It would lose its fear of sharing disciplinary-bound knowledge and become open to active involvement in mutually-generated knowledge along multiple levels of reality and perceptions (as posited in the 1997 Locarno Declaration (see Nicolescu, 2008, Appendix 4)).…

Challenges of a Transdisciplinary University

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The practical need to integrate disciplines within the academy, while at the same time integrating the academy and civil society (in order to deal with complex social, cultural, economic and political issues), has inspired some researchers to look beyond academic borders. They are keen to engage in intellectual border-work. However, a transdisciplinary approach to solving the problems of humanity poses many, many issues for traditional universities (e.g., Pfund et al., 2006; Tourse et al., 2008), not …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / June 2010

John Marshall Roberts. Igniting Inspiration: A Persuasion Manual for Visionaries. Self-published, 2008.

roberts coverFirst, I am surprised that this book has been out so long and only recently showing up on my radar screen. Why? Because I think it is an important book, particularly for those who wish to go beyond theory and model into the world of implementation. We have reported numerous items about application of integral and adult developmental approaches to cultures, organizations and …

Notes from the Field

Uncategorized / Notes from the Field / June 2010

International Leadership Association Webinar
May 26, 2010
Leadership Development
Grady McGonagill and Tina Doerffer

by Russ Volckmann

volckmannConsultant McGonagill and Doerffer of the Bertelsmann Foundation presented their report of a study they did of leadership development in the United States. Their presentation was one of the best hours I have spent online for some time. I probably am greatly influenced by the fact that included in the presentation are many of the themes we have been …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / June 2010

Frederick Darbellay, Moira Cockell, Jerome Billotte, Francis Waldvogel, Editors.A Vision of Transdisciplinarity: LayingFoundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue. Laussanne, Switzerland: EPFL Press, 2008.

Dartbellay coverThis book deserves a far more in depth review that I will be able to offer at this time. It represents something that is very much at the heart of transdisciplinarity: given the growing complexity of the challenges we face in the world (or, at least, our appreciation of complexity), the …

Leadership Quote

Leadership Quote / June 2010

“The message of heroic leadership is about the sterling character of the leader, not the substance of the issues that the public is called to decide. And the temptation of heroic leadership is the extension of power and the escaping of public accountability. Heroic leaders are one of democracy’s leviathans, and the large shadows they cast obscure what democratic citizens lose in their presence.”

~ Bruce Miroff, Icons of Democracy:
American Leaders As Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters, …

Announcements

Announcements / June 2010

Do you have an event or activity that you would like the readers of Integral Leadership Review to learn about? If you are a not for profit organization, send your announcement far enough in advance to make it into an issue that is timely for your event or activity.

Announcing the 2nd International Worldly Leadership Summit

Leading with Responsibility and Conviction

To be held at The Leadership Trust Foundation

Ross-on-Wye, United Kingdom

6-7 September 2010

The …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / June 2010

Elizabeth Doty. The Compromise Trap: How to Thrive at Work Without Selling Your Soul. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2009.

doty coverThe Foreword is written by Art Kleiner, editor of the online publication Strategry+Business. He notes that business ethics is a thorny issue. He values this book because of “the questions it raises about organizational ethics and its underlying message about the practice of healthy compromise.” A central point of the book is “The relationship between an employee …