Bureau Chief
Barbara Larisch served as the General Organizer for the Integral NYC Salon from 2005 to 2010. She holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Behavior from the Polytechnic Institute of NYU and is a certified MBTI practitioner and yoga instructor. Barbara has been a long-time integral enthusiast who has traveled far and wide to satisfy her love of learning. In 2004, she completed her Spiral Dynamics Level 1 Training in Washington DC, and later on enrolled …
Book Reviews / October 2011
John Marshall Roberts. Igniting Inspiration: A Persuasion Manual for Visionaries. Transformational Design, 2008.
One of the challenges people steeped in theory and ideas have is learning to successfully communicate with those who hold different theories or ideas. Another is to communicate with those who don’t give a fig for either theories or ideas different from their own. Certainly one of the promises of exploring psychological theories and models, and particularly adult developmental psychology, is …
Book Reviews / October 2011
Bill George and Doug Baker. True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.. 2011.
During the last year I have been in a process of interviewing CEOs and entrepreneurs, We have talked a lot about their development as individuals that prepared them to be effective in leader roles in their businesses and elsewhere. Experience, education, training and practices have all played an important role. And I thought …
Fresh Perspective / October 2011
Dr. Don Beck s best known as the coauthor of the book, Spiral Dynamics. He has traveled the world with his compelling messages about the application of spiral dynamics to reframing how we define issues and understand the people involved in them. His work has taken him to South Africa, Palestine and Israel, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Denmark, France and many other countries. In addition he has worked with corporations in the United States. His …
Announcements / October 2011
The National Collegiate Leadership Association is an organization for any college student interested in leadership development. Membership benefits include:
More information and the membership application can be found at www.nclalead.org. Questions can be directed to nclalead@gmail.com or …
Book Reviews / October 2011
Jeff Klein. Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living. Boulder CO: Sounds True, 2009.
Russ Volckmann
Not so long ago when I thought of what kind of training would best develop individuals for leader roles, I looked to people like Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner or institutions like The Center for Creative Leadership for examples that I could learn from, adapt, share with clients. Increasingly, as I have been trying to …
Leading Comments / October 2011
“May your children live in interesting times!”
—Curse of Uncertain Origin
Another variant is “May you live in interesting times!”
In either case, the point is made. We do live in interesting times. And these are both wonderful and more than a little scary. I need to spell out the global evidence for this claim. Rather, I will just bring it home to Integral Leadership Review. Our interesting times includes recent successes with the Integral …
Leadership Emerging / October 2011
Steven Denning. The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative, Revised and Updated. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011.
I consider the book to be a classic and welcome Denning’s update.
Essentially he is offering guidance in oral communication. His suggestions mainly apply to using stories or business narrative in performing in a leader role effectively. He covers topics like making sure the story you tell fits the current context. He …
Book Reviews / October 2011
It took a long time to decide on the awards this year. Well, we could have done it sooner, but we didn’t. Part of the challenge was choosing between two outstanding books. If you are interested in integral, interested in leading and leadership in organizations, interested in reading about these things, these two – yes, two (we couldn’t choose which one) – are must reads. Congratulations to the authors, Donna Ladkin and Mark Edwards.
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Coda / October 2011
What has Steve Jobs got to do with Integral Leadership, you ask? I am not sure I can fully answer that nor do I want to take the time now to do so. The point is that Steve Jobs is dead. This man touched the lives of so very many of us, even those of you who still think that in the long run owning a non-Apple computer is less expensive and those of you who …