Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

Leadership Comments

Leading Comments / June 2010

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Why Integral Leadership Review Is/Can Be Important

Russ Volckmann, Editor

Take a moment to show your support. Join Friends of Integral Leadership Review.

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Take a moment with me to revisit why I am doing what I am doing, particularly bringing Integral Leadership Review to the world and welcoming the participation of so very many people in so many ways.

I believe that the future of the world is dependent on the quality of leadership that …

3000th Subscriber to Integral Leadership Review

Announcements / June 2010

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Freddie Northern
3000th Subscriber to Integral Leadership Review

We don’t know much about Freddie (other than his amazing good taste in reading material), but here he is, Freddie Northern, the 3000th subscriber to Integral Leadership Review.

Thank you, Freddie!

Our way of saying thanks was to send him this special edition Integral Leadership Review mug. Makes us wonder if others might be interested in getting one of these.

In the meanwhile, subscriptions continue to climb. …

CODA

Coda / June 2010

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PhilosopherNotes

Leadership Coaching TipphilosophernotesBrian Johnson, founder of Zaadz, the popular integrally informed social networking site (which he later sold to Gaia and they have shut it down) went to Bali and developed an online series, PhilosopherNotes (http://www.philosophersnotes.com/). Now those notes are available in print and audio files. Here is the way this material is presented:

Brian Johnson’s PhilosopherNotes: More Wisdom in Less Time.

Since I had not read many of the notes from the original series, I …

Fresh Perspectives

Fresh Perspective / June 2010

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Reprise: A Focus on 2nd Person in a 2nd Interview with Bill Torbert

by Russ Volckmann

I first interviewed Bill Torbert in 2002.

http://www.integralleadershipreview.com/archives-2002/2002-08/2002-08-fresh-torbert.php

In fact, he is the only person I have published in “Fresh Perspectives” twice in Integral Leadership Review. In part this is due to the respect with which I hold him and his work. It is also a reflection of the fact that in the last year or so Bill’s life has …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / June 2010

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Linda Tarr-Whelan. Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2009.

tarr-whelan coverThe premise behind this book is that there is a 30% solution to gender imbalance in leadership of businesses and government. By filling the chairs at the tables of decision making the character of our organizations and our collective actions will shift. Women will provide a particular set of skills, competencies and worldviews based …

Book Review

Book Reviews / June 2010

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Mark G. Edwards. Organisational Transformation for Sustainability:
An Integral Metatheory. New York: Routledge, 2010.

by Russ Volckmann

About The Book

edwards coverBill Torbert, interviewed in this issue of Integral Leadership Review, wrote the foreword. There he wrote, “Once every generation or so, a field-defining scholarly statement appears. Mark Edwards’s metatheory for organizational transformation is such a book for the field or organizational change and transformation.” I very much agree. This comment captures the metaview of this …

CODA: Messing with Problems

Coda / March 2010

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Christopher Meyer and Julia Kirby in Harvard Business
Review; Ian I. Mitroff and Abraham Silvers, Dirty Rotten Strategies

Leadership Coaching TipAre the times really changing or is it same ‘ole, same ole…’? Is there hope for progress in confronting the challenges we face in the world or have the French had it right all along (as I suspect they have in a number of ways)? “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!” (The more things change, the …

Fresh Perspective

Fresh Perspective / March 2010

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Appreciating Integral: An Interview with Dana Carman
Russ Volckmann

Since 1984 Dana Carman has coached and consulted to visionary leaders and organizations spanning five continents across multiple sectors of society. His clients have demonstrated a commitment to transform themselves and their organizations, as well as the industries and regions in which their organizations are embedded. A hallmark of Dana’s whole systems change approach is the simultaneous deployment of both a top down and bottom up approach …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / March 2010

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arbingerThe Arbinger Institute. Leadership and Self-Deception. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler 2010.

Self-deception shapes our experiences of life. This book seeks to determine the extent and implications of how it blinds us to seeing the true causes of our problems. The work of the Institute in teaching people about self-deception and how to address it is that it “sharpens vision, reduces feelings of conflict, enlivens the desire for teamwork, redoubles accountability, magnifies the capacity to achieve results …

Announcements

Announcements / March 2010

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Integral Review

Special Issue on Integral Politics, edited by Sara Ross

Available Now: http://integral-review.org/current_issue/politics-issue_index.asp

 

Meaning Conference 2010

The International Network on Personal Meaning (INPM) is pleased to announce the 6th Biennial International Meaning Conference to be held August 5-8, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. The main conference theme this year is:

Creating a psychologically healthy workplace: Meaning, spirituality and engagement

INPM brings together a diverse group of the world’s leading thinkers, research scientists, and professionals to …