Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / September 2002

Mission

I am grateful to the more than 450 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 have received.…

Letters

Letters / September 2002

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Russ,

I just wanted to thank you for the great work you’re doing with your newsletter. The time is right for a new approach to leadership, and many of us are sensing the greater possibilities while we experiment with new approaches. It seems to me we need to emphasize the higher possibilities (creativity, vision, intuition) while at the same time focusing on the here and now (compassion, practicality, deep change).

Your newsletter brings together the big …

A Fresh Perspective: A Conversation with Bill Torbert, July 11, 2002

Fresh Perspective / August 2002

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William R. Torbert, PhD, author and teacher, consultant and artist in his own right, works with Susann Cook-Greuter and others in the application of integral and transformational concepts in leadership and organizations. His most recent book, co-authored with Dalmar Fisher and David Rooke is entitled Personal and Organisational Transformations: Through Action Inquiry. After teaching at Yale, SMU, and Harvard, Bill has been at Boston College for the past 23 years, serving as Graduate Dean of the

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Leading Comments

Leading Comments / August 2002

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Mission

Leadership Coaching Tip: Developing For Whom

Leadership Coaching Tips / August 2002

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When coaching leaders in business and organizations the question of agenda assumes some primacy. Sometimes executives are assigned coaches as a reward and sometimes as “punishment” for not performing. Occasionally, we find organizations offering coaching as an intentional developmental tool.

In any case, the agenda is not pure. There are multiple agendas at work: those of the individual, the leader sponsoring the coaching contract, strategic focus of the business and its implications for leadership, customers and

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Feature Article: The Integral Model of Leadership: Integral Leadership, Part 17

Feature Articles / August 2002

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As leaders, we are frequently looking for models, methods and perspectives that give us a better handle on the challenges we face. We have a myriad of voices clamoring for our attention, urging this behavior or holding up this standard. We seek the wisdom that helps us choose.

Or do we? Often we are too busy and too challenged to do anything more than just do the best we can – a stance Don Miguel Ruiz …

A Fresh Perspective: Applying a Developmental Approach: A Conversation with Alain Gauthier, June 29, 2002

Fresh Perspective / July 2002

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Alain Gauthier has served over the past 36 years a large variety of client organizations in France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada and the United States. He first worked as an associate of McKinsey & Company in Europe, then as a partner of a Paris-based consulting firm, and is currently Executive Director of Core Leadership Development in Oakland, CA.

Alain has supervised and prefaced the French adaptation of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline, as …

Leadership Coaching Tip: Provoking Mental Models

Leadership Coaching Tips / July 2002

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By considering assumptions underlying the beliefs and opinions of executive clients, mental models can be evoked. An example of this is the executive who continues to look outside him/herself for an explanation of events that are not satisfying or even frustrating, rather than examining their own beliefs and behaviors. There are several lines of inquiry that might be pursued. One is to ask when the executive behaviors have resulted in achieving what was desired, then comparing

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Announcements

Announcements / July 2002

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First Integral Academic Program?

I came across this on the web. Anyone know who is spearheading this? I know that The Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado has been doing integral classes, but this is the first “high level” program, particularly for executives, offered by a major university that I have seen.

www.nd.edu/~execprog/programs/cil

Executive Integral Leadership Program
Program Overview

Integral Leadership Defined: Integral Leadership focuses on both multidimensional business conditions and key facets of human growth (cognitive,

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Feature Article: Filling in the Blanks: The Developmental Challenge – Integral Leadership, Part 16

Feature Articles / July 2002

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Our efforts to describe, define and develop leadership in business and other organizations have pretty much focused on the individual as leader. Only in rare cases has leadership been considered a collective phenomenon as well. Consequently, much of the literature on leadership has resulted in a collection of stories, models and guidelines for individual effectiveness.

To this point, the articles in this series have sought to describe a model of leadership that is integral. The model …