Category Archives: August 2011

Notes from the Field: Update and Future Regarding Terri O’Fallon’s Research: Her Talk at Seattle, WA, USA, June 14, 2011

Notes from the Field / August 2011

Update and Future Regarding Terri O’Fallon’s Research: Her Talk at Seattle, WA, USA, June 14, 2011

Rev. Alia Zara  Aurami-Sou (Nickname “OM”)

Dr. Terri O’Fallon, Ph.D., (founder, researcher, faculty, and coach at Pacific Integral) gave an update (compared to her last presentation at Integral Theory Conference 2010) on her research, and some glimpses of where she plans to take her research. About 50 people attended, and there was a Question and Answer period. Many of those who attended seem to …

Leadership Emerging: Descriptions of Books, Articles and Other Media

Leadership Emerging / August 2011

Descriptions of varying lengths of books, articles and other media that might be of interest to those who are interested in leading and leadership.

Russ Volckmann

 

Bruce J. Avolio. Full Range Leadership, 2nd Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2011.

Bruce Avolio has been a top researcher and thought leader in the area of leader development for many years. (See interview, http://integralleadershipreview.com/2011/06/fresh-perspective-3/), The 2nd edition of his major work on leader development reflects much of the evolution of his thinking …

Book Review: Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and Counter-positioning in Globalizing Society

Book Reviews / August 2011

Hubert Hermans & Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka (2010)/ Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and Counter-positioning in Globalizing Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

John Rowan

This is a brilliant book which would be of interest to Integral people for three reasons: although it does not have a concept of levels, it does range over all four quadrants of the AQAL model; it uses second-tier thinking throughout; and it is firmly research-based.

The first chapter takes us on to the international stage, and the concept …

Fresh Perspective: Challenge in Mexico: A Conversation with Roberto Bonilla

Fresh Perspective / August 2011

Russ Volckmann

Russ: Roberto, we have been in communication for several years and much of it has been in relation to the work you have done with Don Beck in Mexico.  For example, one of the things that you have written about is the work that you have done with the Department of Education and the Teachers’ Union. Can you tell us about the status of that project?

Roberto: Sure. Well, it’s not really good news. When we got close …

Notes from the Field: Reaching New Heights in Leadership Education: Report on the Annual Meeting of the Association of Leadership Educators

Notes from the Field / August 2011

Reaching New Heights in Leadership Education:  Report on the Annual Meeting of the Association of Leadership Educators

Eric Kaufman

Climb higher. See further. Become a more powerful catalyst for leadership development than ever before. That was the focus of the 21st annual meeting of the Association of Leadership Educators (ALE). In early July, more than 120 leadership educators met in Denver, Colorado, to discuss research findings and share ideas for enhancing leadership education. Conference highlights included keynote presentations by Zach …

Leadership Cartoon

Leadership Cartoon / August 2011

 

 

Mark Hill

l am a cartoonist whose cartoons have been published in over 100 magazines and newspapers, including Time Magazine, The Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.

My specialty is cartoons and humorous illustration for advertising, business and publish- ing. Fortune 500 clients with national advertising campaigns are among my repeat custom- ers…as well as start-up businesses with smaller budgets. 95% of my clients are outside of my home state of Colorado…so I can create something for

Notes from the Field: South West Integral Group – Integral Alive Day with Gary Hawke May 22nd 2011

Notes from the Field / August 2011

South West Integral Group – Integral Alive Day with Gary Hawke  May 22nd 2011

Tessa Martin

I feel fortunate to have found a group of people in the South West of the UK who meet every 4 to 6 weeks because we have an interest in “Integral”.  On 22nd May we met in a village hall somewhere in the countryside of Somerset and were lucky enough to have Gary Hawke come down from London for the day to give us …

Feature Article: Leadership is as Simple as A Child’s Game of Marbles

Feature Articles / August 2011

Transdisciplinarity, Learning, and Complexity in Fairsies, Keepsies and Mibs

Gaetano R. Lotrecchiano

Recently I received an email through the Science-of-Team-Science mass mailer from my colleague Steve Fiore, PhD, at Cognitive Sciences Laboratory at Central Florida University. He brought to our group’s attention an interesting quote from John Lasseter, director and chief creative officer of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios that reaffirms why those of us in organizational and team science so emphatically try to better understand interactive social dynamics.

Feature Article: On Potential Repercussions of Mega Sports Events in Russia

Feature Articles / August 2011

On Potential Repercussions of Mega Sports Events in Russia

Eugene Pustoshkin

I was deeply emotionally touched—up to tears—when I watched the footage of a dramatic episode that happened on June 22, 2011, where the contemporary sports legend and Brazilian football star Roberto Carlos, age 38, who currently plays at the Russian football club Anzhi and is the captain of the team, left the football pitch in Samara after a fan of the opposing team, Krylya Sovetov, threw a banana in …

Feature Article: How do Integral ARTISTS, Boomers, Gen X and Millennial Generations Impact City Values and Policy Development?

Feature Articles / August 2011

How do Integral ARTISTS, Boomers, Gen X and Millennial Generations Impact City Values and Policy Development?

Marilyn Hamilton and Cherlynn Beck

Abstract

The generational wave is a supra-wave of human life patterns that embraces many of the waves normally considered in an Integral human development model. Embracing the waves of consciousness, values and capacity development in holons and social holons, the age cohort as defined by Strauss and Howe describes the archetypal characteristics of peers in generational cultures. According to …