Category Archives: August-November 2016

8/31 – The Pathway to Integral Operational Leadership

Feature Articles / August-November 2016

Greg Park

Abstract

In today’s successful twenty first century business organisation the operational leader is to be regarded less as the “dinosaur”, to be culled in the interests of efficiency, but rather as the pivotal leadership role in re-defining and effectively implementing an alternative organisational logic. This new leadership logic takes into account, in an integral manner, the dynamic and radical changes within the wider socio-economic context and culture of which the business organisation is but a part and upon …

8/31 – If Capitalism is Dead, then what?

Integral European Conference #IEC2016 / August-November 2016

Said E. Dawlabani

#IEC2016 – Keynote Speech

Now we’re going to focus fully on the state of the capitalist system. Today, capitalism is experiencing one of the most profound challenges in its history. Some leading thinkers believe that it might not even survive the current technological disruption. We’re going to take a look at some of the trends that are shaping that thinking and what the future looks like from a value systems perspective.

What you see in front of …

8/31 – What can we learn from tradition and conflict?*

Notes from the Field / August-November 2016

Alain Volz

This article is an English translation of an article previously published in Dutch on July 2nd 2016. With special thanks to Michiel Doorn who helped with the translation.

Those that know me are aware that, already for five years, I have been traveling between Ghana and the Netherlands. In Ghana, I work with the Dagomba tribe in the North. The Dagomba are generally traditional people and religion is important in their lives, as it is in many

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8/31 – Leap into Life – Dipaliya*

Notes from the Field / August-November 2016

Alain Volz

Story of an emerging Social Economy that combines tradition with innovation. 

In this article I will describe the journey Umar Mohammed and I are travelling as Leap into Life Dipaliya and how my journey started. Those who know the Star Trek series recognize the first sentence written here above. Though we haven’t left planet Earth – on the contrary, we are more closely connecting with Her – is what we do quite different from what is commonly known

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8/31 – John Stewart reviews Laske on Dialectical Thinking

Book Reviews / August-November 2016

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

Gregory Bateson famously said:

“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.”

This statement of Bateson’s identifies a serious issue for humanity.

If our thinking does not enable us to build effective mental models of reality, we will be unable to understand the causes of the environmental and other crises …

8/31 – Flow-Based Leadership Book Review

Book Reviews / August-November 2016

Jackie Damrau

Judith L. Glick-Smith (2016). Flow-Based Leadership: What the best firefighters can teach you about leadership and making hard decisions. Technics Publishers.

Flow based leadership

Flow-Based Leadership: What the Best Firefighters Can Teach You About Leadership and Making Hard Decisions is about the leadership in the world of firefighting. These individuals have split seconds in which to make life-altering decisions for those they are saving, those they are protecting, and for themselves. Split second decisions can be harrowing at best as you …

8/31 – What has Eros/Power got to do with Teal Organizing? Quite a lot!

Integral European Conference #IEC2016 / August-November 2016

Heidi Gutekunst, Hilary Bradbury and Dana Carman

About the Eros/Power Workshop I will use just two adjectives: shocking and revealing! Shocking because of the very loving but professional way it led me to explore deep and hidden aspects about my sexuality and sensuality, both male and female sides, with which I rarely make contact. And revealing because that exploration allowed me to understand the way these issues are at work and that the Eros/Power process is critical to everyday relationships

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8/31 – Teal – Do you see and work on the whole picture?

Leadership Coaching Tips / August-November 2016

Heidi Hornlein

On the IEC 2016 the word TEAL was everywhere – and always in connection with organisations, so mainly with the lower quadrants, especially the lower right. I think, it is very important to discuss these aspects and work on them, but more often than not I have the impression that the upper quadrants, especially the upper left (and its expressions in the upper right) are overlooked, missing, marginalized. We want to CREATE something, we are busy DOING, but …

8/31 – A Couples Line of Development

Integral European Conference #IEC2016 / August-November 2016

Thomas A. Habib

Abstract

A couples line of development is proposed from an integral perspective. The couples line specifies developmental stages, tasks for each stage and describes cultural messages that impede development. It reveals the nature and effects of an integral concept called a pre/trans fallacy unique to early intimate relationships and how this often results in widely arrested development at the second and third stages.  It locates the efforts of therapists who provide conjoint therapy, identifies developmentally targeted skill …