Category Archives: August-November 2017

8/31 – The Simpol Solution

Book Reviews / August-November 2017

Jon Freeman

John Bunzl and Nick Duffell (2017). The Simpol Solution. Peter Owen Limited

This is a good book, engaging, well written and with many interesting ideas which deserve consideration.  It has the major virtue of being original and distinctive; there are no well-trodden paths here.

It starts from a familiar place, i.e. we know things are going wrong, are almost certain to get worse and that we need to do something about that.  It attributes these problems to …

8/31 – Leap into Life – a new business model for a Sharing Economy*

Notes from the Field / August-November 2017

Alain B. Volz

Based on traditional values of the Dagomba tribe in Ghana Northern Region and 21stcentury Holistic principles we are developing a Sharing Economy called Leap into Life. The last 2 years we have been working from grass root level in Ghana and The Netherlands on the design of an informal economy where people and planet are more important than profit.

Key principles Leap into Life Business Model

The Leap into Life Sharing Economy is to preserve traditional values in Ghana by creating life

8/31 – Reinventing Organizations: “A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness”

Book Reviews / August-November 2017

Ron Cacioppe and Michael Fox

Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux

is a ground breaking book that describes how the functioning and structure of organisations evolves over time to match the level of development of human consciousness. Organisations go through stages that are radically different, becoming more productive, collaborative and reach a higher level of functioning. Each stage “transcends and includes” the ones that came before, therefore a later stage does not lose the behaviours that came from earlier stages but …

8/31 – Leadership, Mindflow and the Integral Point of It All: The role of Integral Leadership in bringing mindfulness and flow to the workplace

Feature Articles / August-November 2017

Ron Cacioppe

Summary

This article reviews the definitions, characteristics and research dealing with mindfulness, meditation and flow and their positive effects on individual health, interpersonal relations, workplace engagement and performance improvement. This article explores the role of integral leadership to provide conditions for mindfulness in flow (mindflow) using an integral framework.

There is growing interest in both mindfulness and flow in the workplace, but the role of leadership in developing mindfulness in flow is seldom considered. This article suggests that …

8/31 – Nelson Mandela

Leadership Quote / August-November 2017

“A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”

Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1994)…

8/31 – Sentence completion assessments for ego development, meaning-making, and wisdom maturity, including STAGES

Feature Articles / August-November 2017

Tom Murray

Overview

This article began as a series of short white papers providing various types of background information about STAGES and its predecessors. Its sections are relatively independent and readers with prior knowledge should be able to skip to and read each independently, or in any order.  For those new to the field, it provides an overview of theories of meaning-making development (also called ego development or leadership maturity—and which we call “wisdom skills”) as measured by the sentence …

8/31 – Kathia Laszlo

Letters to Russ / August-November 2017

Dear Russ,

It is an honor to know you and a grace to belong to the wide and yet tight-knit community of integral, holistic, evolutionary thinkers and practitioners who are bringing into being a new consciousness into the planet. I want to thank you for your leadership and clarity of vision. You have been a mentor and guide to me and to so many. I want to thank you for believing in me. You have always been supporting and encouraging …

8/31 – Arthur ten Wolde

Letters to Russ / August-November 2017

Dear Russ,

Deeply sorry to hear you are gone. While we have not been in contact for a few years, our contact concerning the publication in 2012 of an essay I wrote about Yin, Yang and Thinking Styles has meant a lot to me. As did the few appreciative responses it got from all over the globe. Thank you. I hope your work is continued and your way of thinking and living keeps on growing.

Arthur ten Wolde…

8/31 – Brian Van der Horst

Letters to Russ / August-November 2017

Re-imagining Russ
Ten years ago, Russ hunted me down on the internet.  Maybe it was because I had been European Coordinator for Ken Wilber’s  Integral Institute, maybe he just ran across one of my old articles about my “Law of Requisite Contrariety.”  What a charmer! He convinced me to re-write it for the ILR,  author many other gratis pieces,  and later asked me to run a bureau for the review in France.  I was always a minor contributor– yet  I

8/31 – Jonathan Reams

Letters to Russ / August-November 2017

My experience with Russ began in 2004, when we were both invited to become board members for ARINA, and subsequently both became involved in Integral Review. I remember being enchanted by the breadth and depth of his knowledge, and the deep curiosity he had towards learning from everyone and everything!

I also experienced the vast network of people he worked with, either though interviewing them  for ILR, or when I had the good fortune to be invited to participate in …