Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

A Fresh Perspective: Big Presence Excerpts from an Interview with Diane Hamilton

Fresh Perspective / April 2005

Russ Volckmann, Lead Coach

Q: Diane, you were described as a student of Genpo Roshi and an authorized Big Mind process facilitator. I had never heard of Diane Hamilton and all of a sudden she shows up at the Integral Organizational Leadership Workshop in Colorado and does this extraordinary job of leading 50 plus people through Big Mind. From what I got from doing interviews with participants and from the evaluations at the end of the workshop, it was hugely …

Feature Article: Scenarios: Emanation and Learning Challenge

Feature Articles / April 2005

Russ Volckmann

This is the second in a short series of articles that recommends the use of scenarios in leadership development. Further, it suggests that an integral approach to learning from scenarios adds a level of richness that better prepares potential leaders for future events. That is the purpose of leadership development and of the use of scenarios: to develop leadership potential.

In the last issue I suggested the use of scenarios for leadership development through the phase …

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / February 2005

The coaching conversations related to the use and design of scenarios can offer a useful way to open discussions of values, beliefs, assumptions, mental models, aspirations, etc., that the executive client holds, supports and defends. One of the most useful contributions the coaching process can make is testing and determining what is truly important to the executive, clarity about the existence of confirming evidence, identification of any conflicting evidence, and clarifying what action is required to

A Fresh Perspective: Developing Leaders and Ourselves An Interview with Bob Anderson

Fresh Perspective / February 2005

Bob Anderson has been a leader in the development of integral approaches to developing leaders.

Q In your writing I see the words “spiritual” and “soul.” Do you use those in the world of business?

A: Yes, but carefully, at the right moment and not in connection with a particular religious perspective. But you’re probably looking at “The Spirit of Leadership” paper, which has a decidedly more spiritual focus than the other papers. And it operates …

CODA: Hardball

Coda / February 2005

Remember all of that work that has been done to propagate the idea that the culture of a company and its people count? And remember all of those reports of near death experiences and the visions that people have? Well, George Stalk doesn’t put the lies to those, but he does challenge our images about what near death experiences are like.

George Stalk is one of those high powered consultants who has traveled the world learning …

Feature Article: Scenarios and Process: Emanation

Feature Articles / February 2005

Russ Volckmann

In this series of articles I have been exploring the use of scenarios for leadership development somewhat abstractly. In the next few issues I hope to examine this approach with more attention to method and process. This article begins an outline of the process or approach that one would use with clients to develop such scenarios. In this series we will be examining scenarios, their development and implementation through four stages: emanation, creation, formation and action. …

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / February 2005

Please Note: You will find that some of the articles in this issue are longer than usual. It is my hope that the quality of the content more than justifies this.

We are beginning the fifth year of publication of the Integral Leadership Review. It is increasingly taking the form that I hoped, although I am sure there is still much that can be done to make this a useful document that attracts a wider audience, …

Announcements

Announcements / December 2004

Adizes Graduate School is offering a three-day Adizes BTP(Breakthorough to Prime)-March 3-5, 2005-seminar and a six-day Spiral Dynamics seminar-March 7-12, 2005 – both live in Santa Barbara, California. http://www.adizes.com/Insights16/04.htm

Additional 2005 Spiral Dynamics

Training and Public Events Schedule

All SDi workshops and other learning events are presented by Dr. Don Beck, assisted by close colleagues in the Spiral Dynamics Integral constellation, unless otherwise stated below.

Provisional 2005 dates for SDi Level One and Two, Three or …

A Fresh Perspective: Leadership as an Organizational Trait An Interview with James O’Toole

Fresh Perspective / December 2004

Q: One thing from your writing is the idea that the focus on the heroic notion of leadership is destructive. Would you care to comment on that?

A: I don’t use the word ‘heroic,’ but I think it is dangerous to focus on leadership as an individual trait. It is also based on the fiction that in any one organization there is a ‘leader,’ the person who is at the top of the organization. I think, …

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / December 2004

When coaching executives, look for openings to explore the relationship between interior-individual lines of development (intellectual, emotional, etc.) and organizational systems (vision and strategy, communications, etc.) An example of such an exploration would follow from the question, “What’s the link between your energy (belief, focus, etc.) and current organizational strategy?” Another might be, “What organizational systems are important for you to be effective in pursuing that strategy (solving that problem, etc.)?” Such questions can help generate