Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

Fresh Perspective: Leadership and Archetypes: A Conversation with Carol S. Pearson

Fresh Perspective / August 2007

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Carol S. PearsonRuss VolckmannQ: Carol, it’s a great pleasure to talk to you. I know of you primarily as the Director of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland and have discovered that you have a very rich background in a wide variety of areas that I think are highly relevant to the study of leadership. I look forward to talking to you about that. Your Ph.D. is in what field?

A: My Ph.D. …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / August 2007

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Reflections on LeadershipReflections on Leadership. Richard A. Couto, ed. Lanham: University Press of America, Inc., 2007.

James MacGregor Burns published his major work, Leadership, in 1978. Probably more than any other individual work, this book birthed the field of leadership studies, particular in the area of politics and community. In the business sector, the subject was a subset of management. In the years to follow, the fact that there were at least two distinct subsets of leadership studies …

CODA

Coda / August 2007

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Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations, San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler, 2007Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations, San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler, 2007.

If you are not familiar with Riane Eisler’s work and her contrasting dominator with partnership models you could go back to her original work, The Chalice and the Blade, or to her books on Partnering. However, it you are interested in a system-level application of the principles of her approach, this is the book to read. Her message is clear: “I have called this book …

Leading Comments: Defining our Terms

Leading Comments / August 2007

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In recent months there was a renewed discussion of the value of definition in relation to leadership with some arguing for the need for definition and some suggesting that definition would emerge from research. There have been for a long time those who take positions on the need for distinguishing between leadership and management. While I am not going to use this space to recap all of this, I am going to come down on the

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Announcements

Announcements / August 2007

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Asociacion Integral Espanola andAelotrans

organize
V INTEGRAL CONFERENCE

OCTOBER 20th y 21st
Tibetan House
Exampla-Barcelona

SPAIN

Program in Spanish

This year: Upper Left Quadrant (ULQ)+ Integral Practice Application: Workshops

The two days Conference will be broadcasted to all the Spanish speaking countries through the Internet.

SATURDAY- OCTOBER 20TH (Morning)
9,30: OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE: Raquel Torrent. Madrid
Psychiologist, therapist, writer and Professor (Integral/Transpersonal approach).
AELOTRANS Director and President of the AIE.
9,45: Luis Paniagua. “Musical Opening for lira
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Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / June 2007

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The Quest for a General Theory of Leadership, George Goethals and Georgia Sorenson, eds. Northampton, MA, US A: Edward Elgar, 2006.

This book represents a most robust look at the study of leadership while representing multiple disciplines in a “quest” to find agreement about leadership and theory. While the quest has not resulted in finding its prize, it is deemed a success by its participants for the learning that they shared during the journey. Still …

Leading Comments: The Hubris of No Doubt

Leading Comments / June 2007

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Have you ever read Richard Feynman’s essay “The Value of Science?” It is published in a little book of short pieces by him: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, edited by Jeffrey Edwards (New York: Basic Books: 1999). There is much about the spirit of this man that I admire and much of it is about his valuing of not knowing. Sounds strange to say that, but when he reflects on the relationship between science

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CODA

Coda / June 2007

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Don Beck and Doug Kruschke, Spiral Dynamics Integral: A Challenge to Leadership, Clearfire Media DVD, 2006.http://www.clearfiremedia.com

In slightly more than two hours (longer if you check out all of the links and other material made available as you watch and listen to this program, Doug Kruschke facilitates Don Beck in laying out the story of Spiral Dynamics Integral from the work of Clare Graves and the meme codes of Spiral Dynamics to the integral …

Announcements – Call for Stories

Announcements / June 2007

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Life Lessons for Leaders is scheduled for publication in 2008 and is accepting submissions of true leadership stories to be included in the book. With a first printing of 500,000 copies, this book is part of the widely acclaimed Chicken Soup for the Soul series. The “Life Lessons” books are different from the typical Chicken Soup book in their focus on learning and application. Each chapter is focused on a different “key ingredient” and uses the

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A Fresh Perspective: Integral Business and Integral Leadership Interviews with Fritzi Woods, CEO, and Wes Blair, COO, PrimeSource, with an Introduction to the Stagen Leadership Program by Brett Thomas

Fresh Perspective / June 2007

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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

Increasingly, we are looking for material—articles, interviews—that will assist us all in learning about integral and developmental approaches to leadership that work. That is why you are seeing an increase in the number of articles and interviews by and with people who are actively engaged in bringing Integral Leadership to the worlds of business, development and governance. The set of materials included here are an experiment. We turned to one of our sponsors, the …