Feature Articles / April- June 2014
Sue L.T. McGregor
This article introduces the idea of creating and spreading a transdisciplinarity meme (herein called the TDMeme). After defining meme, an overview of a recent attempt to meme map climate change will be shared (Karafiath & Brewer, 2013). Then, the model emerging from this memeatic strategy will be used to introduce the idea of a TDMeme. The TDMeme would help spread the idea of bringing a transdisciplinary approach to address the wicked problems facing humanity, of which …
Leadership Coaching Tips / April- June 2014
Rajkumari Neogy
For me, change is always about unwrapping your inner package. When you know what’s inside and can read the owner’s manual, you’re better equipped to navigate your control panel.
Events, also known as experiences, are catalysts to change. If you choose to view life through that lens, your experiences can become your own personal search engine – something happens and you get curious, so you plug in keywords to your inner database and see what comes up.
I …
Leadership Emerging / April- June 2014
Hammerich, Kai and Richard D. Lewis Fish Can’t See Water: How National Cultures can Make or Break Your Corporate Strategy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Chichester, UK 297pp. .
David C. Wigglesworth
This book seems to be an amalgam in which the authors have great difficulty in making the parts stick together. The parts that deal with culture appear to have been extracted from Lewis’s When Cultures Collide and focus on his theory of reactive cultures, whilst the parts …
Feature Articles / April- June 2014
Robert Wayne Johnston
In an Integral Leadership Review article I articulated the importance of becoming a proficient integral self-manager as a prerequisite to effective integral leadership (Johnston 2010). After much reflection about providing readers a theoretical foundation for integral self-management I decided on telling an original allegory (story) which would depict my foundational ‘working hypothesis’ in a narrative probably more interesting to you than a relatively dry academic treatise on my underlying philosophy.
While more cosmological in my frame of …
Feature Articles / April- June 2014
Mike Kitson
“IT is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife;” so writes Jane Austin at the start of Pride and Prejudice. In 1813 when this was first published there were many “truths” that would have been “universally acknowledged” as the philosophy of the age was generally centred on the premise that the world was pretty well ordered – as Robert Browning summarised
Feature Articles / April- June 2014
Notes from the Field / April- June 2014
Tim Winton’s PatternDynamics™ Level One Training, Bellingham, Washington, USA, January 26, 2014
Alia Aurami, Laurel Johnson, Amanda Suutari
Note: Most of my text below is close paraphrase or near-quotation, and except as otherwise noted, “I” is Tim. Reflections and comments by this author, and “I” as this author, should be clear in each instance. This author, Alia, is of course fully responsible for any of my inadvertent misrepresentations of what was said. All images used by permission …
Announcements / April- June 2014
International Leadership Association
Call for Chapters
Leadership 2050: Contextualizing Global Leadership Processes for the Future
The 2015 Volume in the ILA Building Leadership Bridges (BLB) Series
Call for Chapter Proposals – Submit 1200 word max proposal by June 20, 2014. View the Complete Call: http://www.ila-net.org/Publications/BLB/2015BLBCFP.pdf
Expected date of publication August 2015, Jossey-Bass/Wiley
Matthew Sowcik, Editor; Tony …
Leading Comments / April- June 2014
Mark McCaslin
Editor, Integral Leadership Review
Welcome to the April – June 2014 issue of the Integral Leadership Review. We are pleased by the responses we have received stemming from the new format of continuous publication of new Feature Articles, contributions from our wonderful Columnists, Coaching Tips, Book Reviews, Notes from the Field, Leadership Emerging, and Learner Papers. This continuous publication approach; April through June, August through November, and our special January-February issue, is a gift to our readers …
Leadership Quote / April- June 2014
…Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett