Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

Fresh Perspectives: Integral Futures: A Conversation with Christopher Cooke

Fresh Perspective / October 2008

Russ: Great to have the chance to talk with you, Chris. Where are you this week?

Chris: I’m literally 200 meters from Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. It is a country that’s having the courage to ask the hard questions about how to lead through a significant transition. I’m in a very aware and heightened state.

Russ: Other than Don Beck, I don’t know anyone who seems to be traversing the world in the name of integral …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / October 2008

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David V. Day, Michelle M. Harrison and Stanley M. Halpin. An Integrative Approach to Leader Development: Connecting Adult Development, Identity, and Expertise. New York: Routledge, 2008.

There will be an “in depth” review of this book in the January 2009 issue of Integral Leadership Review. Here I intend only to make you aware of this recently published work that I consider to be very significant. It is one of those rare books that bring an …

Leadership Cartoon: Bill Bates Update

Leadership Cartoon / October 2008

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Bill Bates seems to be in a recovery process, but he is still in Intensive Care. Below is a recent report on him. Please continue your healing energy for Bill.

Thanks, Russ

From the Monterey Herald:

COMMUNITY TREASURE: Carmel rallies for cartoonist Bill Bates
By DENNIS TAYLOR
Herald Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 10/08/2008 01:32:03 AM PDT
http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_10666195?nclick_check=1

Bill Bates, left, hangs up his prints in the Carmel Post Office, with…(ORVILLE MYERS/The Herald)

When friends …

Announcements

Announcements / October 2008

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European Conference on Developmental Psychology

ECDP will be held in Vilnius,Lithuania, August 18th to 22nd, 2009,with pre-Conference workshops
focused on recent methodological advances on August 17th and 18th. Abstracts for presentations must be submitted by December 15th, 2008. Notifications of acceptance will be received by March 15, 2009.

Reviewers on the Scientific Committee will be alert to submissions they deem worthy of further development for publication, especially in theEuropean Journal of Developmental Psychology, the …

Coda: Daniel Goleman in Dialogues on Social intelligence, More Than Sound Productions (7 CDs),(http://www.morethansound.net)

Coda / October 2008

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Paul Ekman and Daniel Goleman, Knowing our Emotions, Improving Our World

Facial Action Coding System is a computer automated research tool for studying facial expressions and emotions. It is being deployed against terrorism in health care and a wide variety of other contexts, particularly through the identification of emotions related to lying. Six emotions have unique signatures. For example, anger and fear, each lead to blood flow and voice quality with the result that you can …

Leading Comments: This Issue

Leading Comments / October 2008

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We are in the process of rethinking Integral Leadership Review and its related publications. Subscriptions to ILR will continue to be without charge in order to assure the widest dissemination of the ideas and experiences of our writers and our readers. While I am not prepared to offer details at this time, I want you to know that pretty much everything about ILR, its website, structure and functions are on the table. Format, the use of

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Fresh Perspectives: Developing Integral Leadership Down Under: An Interview with Ron Cacioppe

Fresh Perspective / August 2008

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Russ: I’m very much aware that you’ve been interested in the idea of Integral Leadership for a number of years. I first became aware of your work in publications in the Leadership and Organizational Development Journal and then later in the Journal of Change Management. Your interest at that time seemed to be very much oriented to the subject of organization change from an integral point of view. I’m curious—what brought you to integral theory …

Coda: Thriving in the Face of Urgency

Coda / August 2008

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The World is in crisis. No, I didn’t say the world was going to come to an end on New Years Day. Or that there is some kind of huge spiritual event that will transform us…

Rather, as the readers of this journal are no doubt aware, it just seems like the number and levels of crises in the world are teetering on the edge of some kind of inevitable transforming event. Whether that transformation will …

Leading Comments: This Issue

Leading Comments / August 2008

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I want to thank all of you who sent healing messages and energy to Bill Bates. He is still in the hospital so if you have more of that, please send it his way via the Integral Leadership Review. Note additional comments about his condition in the space usually filled with one of his extraordinary cartoons. We have a guest cartoonist filling in for Bill, Mark Hughes. I am sure you will enjoy his work, as

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Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / August 2008

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“CEO Survey: Forward March,” Inc. Special Issue 500: Meet This Year’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, Inc. September 2008. P. 212.

Elements of their CEO Survey a spread liberally throughout the publication show no statistics that I could find and excerpt out very few comments. They asked CEO’s to define their leadership styles. Here is the sampling of their response. These are entrepreneurs who are experiencing success in their respective industries.

Laid back with a single focus: the …