Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

Fresh Perspective: Development and the Entrepreneur as Leader: An Interview with Harry M. Lasker

Fresh Perspective / August 2006

806laskerimage806rvimageWhen I discovered Harry Lasker and a hint of the scope of his work and contributions, I asked him if we could do an interview. I wanted to review his early research with Jane Loevinger’s developmental model (that is at the heart of Susann Cook-Greuter’s Leadership Development Profile and is used by Bill Torbert and his colleagues as well as others), to lay out his career and explore how his work in developmental models had influenced

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / June 2006

I wish to express my deepest gratitude to those who have chosen to provide voluntary contributions to support the publication of the Integral Leadership Review. My goal is to continue to make the work of those contributing to the development of Integral Leadership theory and applications accessible to all. When you choose to join this generous group, please go to our donation page. My request is for $10.00 to help defray our costs. You can also …

Book Review: Mark Edwards

Book Reviews / June 2006

Mark Edwards: At it Again…and Again,,, and Again…

“On Being Critical”
and
Parallel Theories of an AQAL Approach to Relationality:
Three Conversations with Ken Wilber

The last couple of months have seen further evidence of the value that Mark Edwards brings to integral communities and the development of integral theory. To his credit Ken Wilber has played an active role in bringing Edwards’ ideas to the fore through a series of three conversations published during May …

Announcements

Announcements / June 2006

If you or your organization will be holding an event of interest to the readers of this eJournal, please submit your information toruss@integraleadershipreview.com. Information should be submitted sufficiently in advance to meet our publication dates.

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Integral Review

Volume 2, 2006 has just published.

Table of Contents

Editorial Another Step: The Evolution of Integral Review, Jonathan Reams

Short Works

In Memoriam: Reinhard Fuhr, Thomas Jordan

It is I Who both Breaks and Binds, …

Feature Article: Reflections on the State of Integral Leadership Theory and Development

Feature Articles / June 2006

Russ Volckmann

It has been almost ten years since Chris Newham, Prasad Kaipa and I had our first conversations about integral theory and Integral Leadership. Influenced by Howard Gardner’s work on multiple intelligences and others’ work on emotional intelligence we turned to Ken Wilber’s A Brief History of Everything, No Boundary and Sex, Ecology and Spirituality for concepts and models that would be helpful.

Our work was contextualized by our own collective decades of management and leadership practice, …

Leadership Agility with Bill Joiner and Steve Josephs

Fresh Perspective / June 2006

Russ: Welcome, Bill and Steve. I would like to congratulate you because in October you will have the first integrally informed leadership book to be published by a major publisher in the world. Is that your understanding, too?

Bill: What about Bill Torbert’s Action Inquiry?

Russ: Certainly Action Inquiry includes materials highly relevant to leadership, but I don’t see that as the major focus. But if we include that, then you are second and congratulations are …

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / March 2006

I wish to express my deepest gratitude to those who have chosen to provide voluntary contributions to support the publication of the Integral Leadership Review. My goal is to continue to make the work of those contributing to the development of Integral Leadership theory and applications accessible to all. When you choose to join this generous group, please go to our donation page. My request is for $10.00 to help defray our costs.

I would also …

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / June 2006

Watch out for SHAMs

It has become pretty clear that self-help programs do not, in themselves, work. Evidence to the contrary is anecdotal, as far as I can discover. Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic, recently published a short article in Scientific American debunking self-help from fire walking to Tony Robbins. “Do these programs work? No one knows…no scientific evidence indicates that any of the countless SHAM techniques – from fire walking to 12-stepping – works better …

Leadership Coaching Tip: Leading and the Mental Model

Leadership Coaching Tips / March 2006

Your client has a mental model of leading. This includes the very concept of leadership that she holds. It involves what it is to be a leader, what leaders do, relationships with collaborators and followers, the relationship between leading and the strategic directions of the organization, the role of culture in determining leader effectiveness. It also involves personal values, personal intentions, questions of self-identity. In your coaching process, be aware that omitting any of these dimensions

Announcements

Announcements / March 2006

Kripalu Institute for Integrated Leadership in Lennox, MA.

The Institute for Integrated Leadership’s new Semester Intensive is an immersion program specifically designed for 18- to 25-year-olds. Today, more than ever, the world needs the perspective, power, and passion of young adults who can influence change and make a significant, positive impact in our increasingly complex world.

We are looking for 36 extraordinary young adults to kick off our inaugural semester in Fall 2006. We have more …