Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / May 2001

When working with individual or groups of leaders explore the question of leadership resources with them. Help them identify the resources that are important to them. Test their assumptions and beliefs about leadership resources.
Then have them identify how best to use those resources in relation to leadership purpose and the achievement of business objectives.

> Russ Volckmann…

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / May 2001

An Invitation

The subject of leadership fascinates me. That is leadership in any aspect of business and life. In recent years, my focus has been on executive leadership in business.

Do you want to understand more about the relationship between the needs of executives and how coaching can support those needs. So do I. Warren Bennis stated in a speech last year that the integral approach to organizations and management is the wave of the future. …

Feature Article: Leadership Resources

Feature Articles / May 2001

In the last issue the subject was leadership on purpose. With this issue I continue to unfold some themes about Integral Leadership. This approach builds on the models and theories of Ken Wilber to provide a practical, business-savvy approach to executive leadership.

Leaders need to understand the nature of the resources that they have at their disposal to effectively lead a modern business enterprise faced with turbulence and complexity. We need to understand resources on two …

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / April 2001

When coaching an individual leader in a business, explore her/his assumptions about the individual and collective aspects of leadership in their experience. Ask them to tell stories about each and identify what important learning there was.
Some sample questions might be:
  • What were your intentions?
  • What did you do?
  • What was the result?
  • What does this say about your leadership?
Then ask them to look at a leadership opportunity that they are facing. Ask a similar

Feature Article: Leadership On Purpose

Feature Articles / April 2001

In the last issue I wrote about our need to transcend and include the limiting model of heroic leadership. It isn’t that we have no reason to value heroic acts of leadership. They continue to be important to us. We need to recognize both the heroic and the collective. In the remarks that follow, I am concerned with business leadership. However, they might apply equally to any context.

One analogy that may make this point clearer …

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / April 2001

Summary

Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton.
The Knowing-Doing Gap.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Pfeffer and Sutton studied what it is about businesses that make it so difficult for them to implement what they know. The gap is the product of a number of factors. For example, people act on the basis of experience drawn from the past rather than thinking about and analyzing current situations. Or the focus is on measurement instead …

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / February 2001

Introduction

Welcome to Leadership Opportunity, a monthly e-journal about leadership in business and life. This e-journal is about leadership. It is about leadership in business and life. In both cases, leadership is both an individual and collective act. It is written for those who want to strengthen the quality of leadership for their businesses, organizations, clients and in their own lives, careers, and relationships

I hope that other will contribute material to this e-journal. And I …

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / March 2001

“When working with individual or groups of leaders explore the question of leadership resources with them. Help them identify the resources that are important to them. Test their assumptions and beliefs about leadership resources.
“Then have them identify how best to use those resources in relation to leadership purpose and the achievement of business objectives.”

> Russ Volckmann…

Feature Article: Leadership Resources

Feature Articles / March 2001

In the last issue the subject was leadership on purpose. With this issue I continue to unfold some themes about Integral Leadership. This approach builds on the models and theories of Ken Wilber to provide a practical, business-savvy approach to executive leadership.

Leaders need to understand the nature of the resources that they have at their disposal to effectively lead a modern business enterprise faced with turbulence and complexity. We need to understand resources on two …

Announcement

Announcements / March 2001

An Invitation, March 2001

Do you want to understand more about the relationship between the needs of executives and how coaching can support those needs. So do I. Warren Bennis stated in a speech last year that the integral approach to organizations and management is the wave of the future. This is the direction the most exciting research, new methods, and action will be going.

You are invited to join with me in a 3-month (approximately) …