Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / October 2009

His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Laurens Van Den Muyzenberg. The Leader’s Way. Boston: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2009.

How could you not want to read a collaboration between the Dalai Lama and a Dutch business consultant? The intrigue is even stronger when we discover that this book was in the making for nine years (1991-2000)—years of periodic meetings and consultations! And then another seven years of creating the book!

The result is an interestingly presented set …

CODA: Attending to the Collective

Coda / October 2009

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Much of the attention on integral development has the focus on individual development. We have programs and practices for attending to cognitive and emotional development, as well as attending to physical development (through variations on the martial arts and other physical activity), and meeting aspirations for spiritual development, albeit still a question of whether that is a line or stream of development, on the one hand, or is manifest in different ways by development in other

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Leading Comments: This Issue and More!

Leading Comments / October 2009

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It seems to me that every issue of Integral Leadership Review is special. Okay! I am biased! And this issue has its special qualities. For one, notice that we do not have a column by any of our standard columnists. I know you will miss Keith Bellamy and Alan Tonkin, as do I, but alas we have an issue without them. The dialogue with Wendelin Kupers continues, though. And the Fresh Perspective this month is an

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Leadership Coaching Tip: Responsibility, Accountability and Leadership

Leadership Coaching Tips / October 2009

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Two concepts that have been central to the conversation about management, at least since the work of Chester Barnard, are Responsibility and Accountability. But let’s consider these terms, particularly in the context of leadership coaching.

Here is one account of Peter Drucker’s treatment of these concepts:

On our return to the classroom Peter began to talk about responsibilities and accountability, not just of managers, but of employees as well. The idea, as I remember it, was …

Leadership Quote: Mary Parker Follett

Leadership Quote / October 2009

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The skillful leader…does not rely on personal force; he controls his group not by dominating but by expressing it. He stimulates what is best inus; he univies and concentrates what we feel only gropingly and scatteringly, but he never gets away from the current of which we and he are both an integral part. He is a leader who gives form to the inchoate energy in every man. The person who influences me most is not …

Announcements

Announcements / October 2009

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Spirals over the Rockies – Register Now!
Boulder, Colorado, USA
November 9-15, 2009

SPIRAL DYNAMICS IN ACTION

Dr. Don Beck and The Spiral Dynamics Group warmly invite you to participate in a week of dynamic and engaging learning in beautiful Boulder. We offer these certification courses:

* SDi Level One Foundations: November 9-11, 2009
* 10th Annual SDi Level Two Personal Emergence: November 12-15, 2009

2009 LEVEL TWO THEME:
Personal Emergence and the Challenge of the …

Fresh Perspectives: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership An Inteview with Annie McKee

Fresh Perspective / October 2009

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Annie McKee earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University. She has co-authored two groundbreaking books on leadership, Primal Leadership (with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis) and Resonant Leadership (also with Boyatzis) Her book, Becoming a Resonant Leader, was published in March, 2008. She serves as Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Penn, and teaches at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education. She is a founder of the

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Fresh Perspectives: Integral Leadership and Business: An Interview with Rand Stagen and Brett Thomas

Fresh Perspective / August 2009

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Rand Stagen and Brett Thomas are significant innovators in the application of integral perspectives and approaches to organizations and leadership. I have wanted to interview them for some time, particularly since interviewing two of their clients. Here is an update on their innovative activities.

Russ: I welcome this wonderful opportunity to talk with two business partners whom I’ve known now for a number of years. They’ve been important supporters of Integral Leadership Review—Rand Stagen and Brett …

Announcements

Announcements / August 2009

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State of the World Forum

We want to inform you that the upcoming State of the World Forum has been rescheduled from November 12-14, 2009 to February 28 – March 3, 2010. This has come about due to the extraordinary success of our endeavors and the fact that what was originally an intent to convene a conference has morphed into a global strategy to develop a 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign.

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The 4th Annual Integral

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Leading Comments: This Issue and More

Leading Comments / August 2009

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First, allow me to offer thanks to the interns who have contributed so much to the Integral Leadership Review for this and the previous four issues:Kathy E. McKenzie-Mitiku, North Carolina A & T State University; Yung-Pin Lu, Marian University; and Ryan Schoenbeck, The University of Texas at Austin. Their contributions have been of considerable value and I hope we see them in the pages of ILR in the future.

This also provides me with the opportunity …