Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

A Fresh Perspective: A Conversation with Fred Kofman

Fresh Perspective / March 2003

Originally from Argentina, Fred Kofman spent several years as a faculty member at MIT and worked closely with Peter Senge. Now in Colorado, his consulting and coaching practice has led to the creation of a new business and a close relationship with Ken Wilber. He is the author of Metamanagement, published in Spanish and soon to be available in English.

Q: There has been in recent years more and more literature about the importance of …

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / March 2003

Many leaders have considerable skill in breaking things down. That is in the problem solving tradition they cut their leadership baby teeth on. Find the parts, test the parts, fix the ones that aren’t right and reassemble. Does reassemble offer us a clue as to what is required to achieve the kind of integrating skills that leaders need? I think it might suggest that there is a step beyond reassembling. That step is testing.

Testing provides …

Leading Comments

March 2003

In Memoriam: Robert Tannenbaum

Robert Tannenbaum died this month in Carmel, California. In addition to being a pioneer in organization and leadership development, he was a leader in recognizing the importance of the development of the consultant, as well. I believe it was at the 1984 Organization Development Network Conference that he spoke to almost a thousand assembled consultants. At a time when the focus of the field seemed to be so much on tools and …

Coda

Coda / March 2003

Sara RossSara Ross, “A Developmental Approach : Integral Public Practice For Complex Public Issues”

Sara Ross has been concerned with community development for a number of years. She has brought her integral perspective to this challenge in her work independently and with the Kettering Foundation. She states, “Public processes are integral when they aim public attention at the real breadth and depth of issues. They do this by working with people’s different motivations, worldviews, and behaviors, …

Announcements

Announcements / March 2003

Significant Journal
Spirituality & Reality, New Perspectives on Global Issues

Nancy B. Roof is the editor of this journal, published Friends for a New Civilization. Their mission is “Contributing to the enhancement of the quality of life and to the humanization of global relations through the promotion of spiritual values.”

Volume II, Number 2, March 2003 features two articles by Don Beck and a colored insert of Spiral Dynamics Integral.

This issue is being distributed to …

Featured Article: The Integral Model of Leadership: Making Integral Leadership Actionable, Integral Leadership – Part 23

Feature Articles / March 2003

I was asked recently how I was applying my thinking about Integral Leadership in my coaching with executives and others. Part of my response included the observation that I rarely talk about integral or the idea of Integral Leadership. Rather, I use language that is more connected to the culture I am working in. And I referenced the old saw, “You’ve got to start where the client is at.” I do believe that whether as consultants

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / March 2003

In Memoriam: Robert Tannenbaum

Robert Tannenbaum died this month in Carmel, California. In addition to being a pioneer in organization and leadership development, he was a leader in recognizing the importance of the development of the consultant, as well. I believe it was at the 1984 Organization Development Network Conference that he spoke to almost a thousand assembled consultants. At a time when the focus of the field seemed to be so much on tools and …

Coda

Coda / February 2003

Melvin E. Miller and Susanne R. Cook-Greuter, eds. Creativity, Spirituality, and Transcendence: Paths to Integrity and Wisdom in the Mature Self, Stamford, Connecticut: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 2000.

Creativity is an aspect of leadership in business and life. In this volume the editors have assembled a series of articles that focus on creativity in relation to adult development theory and contribute an article of their own. This is the second of their collaborations (Transcendence and Mature Thought …

A Fresh Perspective: Susann Cook-Greuter: Perspectives on Leadership

Fresh Perspective / February 2003

Dr. Cook-Greuter, is principal of Harthill USA. She is a core member of the Psychology and Business Practice Branches of Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute, a think tank in Boulder, Colorado. Susanne has a doctorate from Harvard University and is an internationally known authority on Mature Adult Development. She has co-authored two books with Mel Miller on Adult development, creativity and spirituality. Her thesis, “Postautonomous Ego Development”, is a landmark study in the characteristics and assessment of

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / February 2003

Mission

I am grateful to the more than 560 subscribers to Integral Leadership Review. Your support means that we can move closer to a way of viewing and being in the world that is integrative, generative and supportive of our evolving integrity – learning to align our theory and our action, our values and assumptions with achieving what is important to us. Also, I am grateful to the many kindnesses, suggestions and offers of support we …