Coda / March 2008
Chris Laszlo, Sustainable Value: How the World’s Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good with a Foreword by Patrick J. Cescau, Group Chief Executive Office, Unilever, Stanford, CA, US A: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Chris Laszlo has produced a truly remarkable book. I am so impressed that I hope every reader ofIntegral Leadership Review will find a way to read it. Let me tell you why.
Over the last few decades there has been …
Leadership Emerging / March 2008
Mario Fernando, Spiritual Leadership in the Entrepreneurial Business: A Multifaith Study. Northampton, MA, USA or Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007.Globilization is not just a phenomenon of economics and business. We have long known that it is a phenomenon of culture, as well. The Integral Leadership Review seeks to be a leader in the globilization of knowledge development that will offer alternatives to historic patterns and open segments of many cultures to more integrative ways …
Leadership Emerging / January 2008
Roger Martin. The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.University of Toronto Dean of the Rotman School of Management Martin has provided us with an overview of the model and development approaches for working with MBA students in teaching them integrative thinking. In doing so, he draws on an extensive collection of interviews that he has conducted with leaders in business and other fields to provide …
Coda / January 2008
There are seven segments of this presentation at an Integral Institute workshop.
The opportunity to download these very well presented introductions to her highly important work on development and its applications is well worth the price of admission for a one month membership in Integral Naked.
The Arbinger Institute, Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the …
Fresh Perspective / January 2008
Wessel Ganzevoort is past Chairman of KPMG Europe and is Professor of Organizational Dynamics and Innovation at the University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the Integral Leadership Review’s Integral Leadership Council and you can read more about him at http://www.integralleadershipreview.com/contributor/bio-ganzevoort-wessel.html.Russ: I know that you spent many years with KPMG in Europe. Your role evolved from consultant to the number one guy in Europe for KPMG—is that correct?
Wessel: Yes, that is correct.…
Leading Comments / November 2007
I liked the format…initially, but found …
Announcements / November 2007
Integral Development Bulletin
Integral Development (ID) is a Western Australian company offering a comprehensive range of leadership and organisational …
Leadership Emerging / November 2007
Martin M. Chemers, An Integrative Theory of Leadership, Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1997.Stimulated by the author’s chapter in Richard Couto’s edited volume, Reflections on Leadership, I have gone back to his book published in the late 1990s to see what we might learn about his approach to integrating theories of leadership. To begin with, let’s look at how he approaches this by framing the notion of leadership. “…leadership contributes to …
Coda / November 2007
Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. New York: The Penguin Group, 2007.Like the brain where memories are not stored in hierarchies but in networks, distributed structures, human systems sometimes are formed without hierarchy, where no one is in charge. “You’d think that there would be disorder, even chaos. But in many areas, a lack of traditional leadership is giving rise to powerful groups …
Fresh Perspective / November 2007
Q: Jim, it’s been a while since we talked. One of the things I’ve noticed in your work with Barry Posner is since you published The Leadership Challenge you’ve been creating some additional material that seems to be both building upon your existing works and a shift in perspective. This has been in two books called Encouraging the Heart and A Leader’s Legacy . Am I picking up on something that is really there, or