Category Archives: August 2012

Three Assumptions Underlying Integral Leaders’ Choices of Power

Feature Articles / August 2012

Robert Wayne Johnston

It is no mystery we learn, for better or worse, more or less consciously and unconsciously, through our communications with other entities. These include communications with other humans, one’s spirit guide, other animals, our planet, and our cosmos — in every situation we find ourselves “learning in the laboratory of life.” Our inter-entity communications appear based on mainly three sets of alternative assumptions each of us may have about the power of others we meet in various …

Metagogy: Teaching, Learning and Leading for the Second Tier

Feature Articles / August 2012

Mark L. McCaslin and Karen Wilson Scott

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
~Albert Einstein

As we observe the mantle of instructor flow from student to student in an open pattern governed solely by the will of the members of this learning community, my colleague and co-potentiator provides this synergistic group with another question that …

Leadership from a Cosmic Perspective[i]

Feature Articles / August 2012

Todd Duncan

“A healthy consciousness is like a spider’s web, and you are the spider in the centre. The centre of the web is the present moment. But the meaning of your life depends on those fine threads which stretch away to other times, other places, and the vibrations that come to you along the web… Normally your consciousness is like a very small spider’s web; its threads don’t stretch very far. Other times, other places, are not very real

Andy Stefanovich, Look @ More

Leadership Emerging / August 2012

Andy Stefanovich (2011). Look @ More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Look @ MoreIn many ways the title of this book is at the heart of the integral, meta and transdisciplinary approaches to comprehending any occurance, personal, interpersonal, organizational, etc. Here Andy Stefanovich shares what he has been bringing to organizations like The Gap to support their desires for increased innovation. He notes that companies don’t put their money where there mouth is when it …

Joann Danelo Barbour et al, Eds. Leading in Complex Worlds

Leadership Emerging / August 2012

Joann Danelo Barbour, Gloria J. Burgess, Lena Lid Falkman, Robert M. McManus,  Eds. (2012). Leading in Complex Worlds, A Volume in the International Leadership Association Series, Building Leadership Bridges. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

Leading in Complex Worlds coverEvery year the International Leadership Association produces a book in their Building Leadership Bridges series. This volume sought contributions that were “multiperspetive in scope and focused on leading and leadership, and that would be appropriate for helping leaders develop the understanding needed to live and lead in …

Carol S. Pearson, Ed., The Transforming Leader

Leadership Emerging / August 2012

Carol S. Pearson, Ed., (2012). The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the Twenty-First Century. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

Transforming Leader coverThis is a book I had great hope for when I first learned of it. First, it was published by my favorite publisher of popular works on leadership and development. Second, it was edited by Carol Peterson who was reviewed in the pages of Integral Leadership Review, http://integralleadershipreview.com/5280-fresh-perspective-leadership-and-archetypes-a-conversation-with-carol-s-pearson and has published on leadership and archetypes. Then, when …

Carter Phipps, Steve McIntosh and Andrew Cohen on Evolution

Leadership Emerging / August 2012

Here are three books written by three people who are linked in their work and/or their writing, all related to the subject of evolution. Phipps was editor of What is Enlightenment, later EnlightenmentNext, publications sposored by Andrew Cohen and in which Cohen’s work and dialogues with Ken Wilber were featured. Phipps and McIntosh reference each other’s work, as well as the work of Andrew Cohen 9among others). The Foreword to Cohen’s book is by Deepak Chopra and the …

Ginny Whitelaw, The Zen Leader

Leadership Emerging / August 2012

Ginny Whitelaw (2012). The Zen Leader: 10 Ways to go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly. Pompton Plains, NJ: Career Press.

The Zen Leader coverGinny Whitelaw is a leadership expert and roshi (Zen master). She is the author of The Zen Leader and founder of the Institute for Zen Leadership. She has taught and coached in global leadership programs for nearly 20 years. Formerly deputy manager for integrating NASA’s Space Station Program, she has a PhD in biophysics as well as a fifth …

Integral: The “New” Human Potential Movement

Coda / August 2012

I am old enough to have lived and worked through most of the years of the Human Potential Movement. This was a period that saw the establishment of the Esalen Institute, the rising popularity of a wide range of therapies from gestalt to transactional analysis, to neoReichian body therapies and Rolfing, to sensory awareness and primal scream, to name just a few. This was a time that saw humanistic psychology programs in higher education at the Humanist Psychology Institute (now …

The Master Code: Spiral Dynamics Integral

Column / August 2012

Meshworks Solutions: Doing what Needs to be Done!

Don Beck

Our Regrets. We were unable to secure this column for this issue. Please see the October issue that is forthcoming. We anticipate the column will resume then.

Thanks,

Russ…