Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / January 2003

Look for the February Issue of Integral Leadership Review that includes an excerpt from an interview with Susann Cook-Greuter, author, educator and developer of the Leadership Development Profile.
Note: Due to a very busy month and the illness of my transcriber, there is no December 2002 issue.

Mission

I am grateful to the more than 520 subscribers to Integral Leadership Review. Your support means that we can move closer to a way of viewing and being …

Coda

Coda / January 2003

John Forman, Paul Landraitis, Steve McIntosh and Bert Parlee have published their new website http://www.integraldevelopment.com/

The site describes their business as follows:

“Integral Development Associates (IDA) is a consulting firm specializing in the application of integral theory and practice to organizations and markets. As part of the growing worldwide integral movement, IDA has achieved significant results by literally raising the consciousness of organizations and their leaders. This creates better quality decisions, better organizational design and harmony,

A Fresh Perspective: Another Spiral A Conversation with Charles Hampden-Turner

Fresh Perspective / January 2003

Charles Hampden-Turner has written seventeen books. In recent years he has worked closely with Fons Tompenaars and they have co-authored several books on business culture. A recent publication is 21 Leaders for the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill, 2001). We pick up the conversation with my asking about his first book.

Q: One of the things about Radical Man that was so impressive is that it contains what I think is probably the most powerful model of psychosocial …

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / January 2003

When coaching executives it is important at times to have them “see things” from different perspectives. Otherwise, they are trapped in their own experience and learned ways of engaging. One way to support this is to have them view the same phenomenon through the lenses of their various roles. What roles? Well they could be the ones suggested either by the Notre Dame program or by the Integral Leadership model offered in the series of articles.

Feature Article: The Integral Model of Leadership: Leadership Development, Integral Leadership – Part 21

Feature Articles / January 2003

Leo Burke’s Integral Leadership program at the University of Notre Dame is built around some key integral concepts: quadrants (personal meaning, individual behavior, culture and shared values, and systems and processes), lines (cognitive, emotional, interpersonal, physical, moral and spiritual), and or levels of development. Generally, these are consistent with the approach being explored in this series of articles.

When we look at the list of courses offered in this program here is what we find:

Executive …

A Fresh Perspective: A Conversation with Leo Burke

Fresh Perspective / November 2002

Leo Burke was at Motorola for 12 years, the last six of which were in Motorola University. During that time, he was Dean and Director of the College of Leadership and Transcultural Studies. More recently he became Associate Dean for Executive Education at the Business School at the University of Notre Dame. There he has initiated programs based on an integral approach to leadership.

Q: What I know of you I think first came out in …

Leadership Coaching Tip: Engaging the Culture

Leadership Coaching Tips / November 2002

Important to the coaching process is supporting the leader and the collective of which s/he is a part to gain clarity about how they make meaning in the face of change and ambiguity. One approach is to explore meaning making in levels that parallel those of learning: performance enhancement, individual and system change, and transformation–a change in meaning. Executives that I work with currently are finding the exploration of transformational learning, the learning about the learner,

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / November 2002

Mission

I am grateful to the more than 500 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 …

Coda

Coda / November 2002

Mary Hessler-Key, Ph.D. and Robin Wood, Ph.D.,
Developing Leadership Capacity: Searching for the Integral
A paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Integral Leadership,
London, England, October 2002

Abstract: Leadership studies generally brush over the issues that differences in values and cultural relativism raise by defining the test of leadership as the achievement of results (i.e. – “Does this leader accomplish what he or she set out to do? If so, the person must be …

Announcements

Announcements / November 2002

Global Integral Research, Inc Presents:
The Wade Mindsets Leadership Development Program, Jenny Wade Ph.D.

This two-day workshop is a certification program in the Wade Mindsets System for Leadership Development. This unique approach is based on adult developmental psychology and how it affects:

  • The way people think
  • The environment and work they prefer
  • How they relate to others
  • The way they respond to different incentives
  • How they pay attention selectively
  • How they communicate and respond to communication