Category Archives: August-November 2015

8/19 – New Directions – International Studying Leadership Conference

Announcements / August-November 2015

New Directions in Leadership Studies: Exploring the Critical Turn
Lancaster University
13th–15th December 2015

In 2015 the International Studying Leadership Conference returns to Lancaster University Management School. Having hosted the Conference in 2003 and 2005, as well as having launched the Leadership journal in 2005, Lancaster provides an ideal setting for debates and discussions about important new directions for leadership and leadership development.

Within the burgeoning literature on leadership, there is an increasing recognition that mainstream leader-centred assumptions, functionalist theories …

8/19 – The Drucker Forum 2015, Vienna

Announcements / August-November 2015

GLOBAL DRUCKER FORUM
5 – 6 NOV 2O15
Vienna, Austria

The Drucker Forum 2015 touches a key theme of our time: it will look at the technology revolution – with Robotics, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, and The Internet of Things – through the lens of humanity.

This leads into fundamental questions to be discussed at the Conference:
In a technology-driven economy, does management need a fundamental makeover? How can digital technology be leveraged to augment human capacity as …

8/19 – British Academy of Management Conference

Announcements / August-November 2015

British Academy of Management Conference

All delegates wishing to attend the British Academy of Management Conference will need to be a BAM member. So you will need to pay the membership and the Conference fee. The fee covers delegate’s lunches and refreshments for the duration of the conference. There is also a Gala Dinner which is held on Wednesday 09th September and you will need to purchase a separate ticket for this event at £56.

Additional information is available here.…

8/19 – Integral European Conference – IEC 2016

Announcements / August-November 2015

Dennis Wittrock has sent out the following appeal:

Get behind IEC 2016 – support the team! For the 2nd Integral European Conference in 2016 I ask for your help – the help of the integral community.
We need to raise funds to finance the work of our core team members for the coming 9 months. Learn more here. Together we can do it.

We have already found people who stand behind us. People like Ken Wilber, Susanne Cook-Greuter, John Dupuy, …

8/19 – See Video of Sean Hargens’ Opening Presentation at ITC 2015

Notes from the Field / August-November 2015

You can buy a video of Sean Hargens’ opening presentation and more from ITC 2015 here. Well worth watching for a status of integral theory, its impact and potential. His presentation on the list of projects around the world is remarkable. In the US, Europe and Asia individuals are applying integral approaches and making remarkable impact. Also featured is the relationship between MetaIntegral and the Nature Conservancy.

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8/19 – A Note on the Field: Thoughts on Integral Leadership Post ITC 2015

Feature Articles / August-November 2015

Tim Winton

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So, something happened at the Integral Theory Conference.

Four weeks now since it ended and its still happening. Not with quite the same intensity, but intense enough that it feels like one of those things where once the experience has been had, the power of it means that things are never really going to be the same again.

I’ve been thinking this over–a lot–and feeling deeply the quality of it. I’ve also been reading many of your posts …

8/19 – John Brockman, Ed. This Idea Must Die.

Leadership Emerging / August-November 2015

John Brockman, Ed. This Idea Must Die. New York: Harper, 2015.

9780062374356_CoverThis is a most unusual book to be included in Integral Leadership Review. But it is a significant contribution to integral understanding. It is a book of very short entries by scholars and other intellectuals on ideas that are current in the various sciences, including the social sciences, about ideas that are perceived to stand in the way of our progress as a generative civilization. This virtual …

8/19 – Brian J. Robertson, Holacracy

Leadership Emerging / August-November 2015

Brian J. Robertson, Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2015.

holacracy-3dIn 2007 Integral Leadership Review featured a couple of articles about holacracy (http://integralleadershipreview.com/5328-feature-article-organization-at-the-leading-edge-introducing-holacracy-evolving-organization/ ; http://integralleadershipreview.com/5333-feature-article-holacracy-in-action-theory-to-practice/), Brian Robertson’s innovative organizational approach in the software company he built and his subsequent entrepreneurial activity.

On January 15, 2014 Forbes published a story about Zappos’ experience with holacracy: (http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/01/15/making-sense-of-zappos-and-holacracy/)

On May 29, 2015 FastCompany published an article about Zappos and holacracy. (http://www.fastcompany.com/3044352/the-secrets-of-holacracy.)

On …

8/19 – Robin Lincoln Wood. The Trouble with Paradise: A Humorous Enquiry into the Puzzling Human Condition in the 21st Century

Book Reviews / August-November 2015

Robin Lincoln Wood. The Trouble with Paradise: A Humorous Enquiry into the Puzzling Human Condition in the 21st Century, Foreword by Ken Wilber. Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2014.

Russ Volckmann

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I met Robin Wood about a decade ago. He was in San Francisco to explore and promote his work in Europe, Renaissance 2, an integrally informed conferencing and networking effort that has touched the lives of many. I must admit that I have not tracked these activities very closely. …

8/19 – Otto Laske, Dialectical Thinking for Integral Leaders

Book Reviews / August-November 2015

Reflections on Otto Laske, Dialectical Thinking for Integral Leaders: A Primer

Otto Laske, Dialectical Thinking for Integral Leaders: A Primer. Tucson: Integral Publishers, 2015.

Russ Volckmann

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Full disclosure: I am the publisher of Otto Laske’s newest book, Dialectical Thinking for Integral Leaders: A Primer. As such I must acknowledge that I am part of a for profit company that seeks to bring integral/transdisciplinary voices into the public dialogue (www.integralpublishers.com). Otto’s is such a work and one I believe all …