Coda / January 2011
“Coda can denote any concluding event, summation, or section.”
– From Wikipedia
1. (Music / Classical Music) Music the final, sometimes inessential, part of a musical structure.
2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a concluding part of a literary work, especially a summary at the end of a novel of further developments in the lives of the characters.
– From the freedictionary.com
I have been using the CODA section of Integral Leadership Review for years as a place …
Feature Articles / January 2011
Gagandeep Singh
Preamble
This article takes a close hard look at Organization Design. We asked ourselves, why should we write about Organization Design amidst times when managers all across the world, are facing unnerving dilemmas and painful transitions, as they struggle to respond to a global downturn, under a looming threat of a possible collapse of western capitalism.
We believe that many of these dilemmas that leadership confront today were seeded a long time ago in the way organizations have …
Notes from the Field / January 2011
Matthew Rich
During my time working in India in 2010 I became increasingly interested in the work of Sri Aurobindo. I had obviously encountered Aurobindo’s name through my readings of Ken Wilber and thought that I had familiarized with a lot of his key ideas (in retrospect I don’t think that this was the case at all). When I got to India however it quickly dawned on me that there was a textual richness to Aurobindo’s work that I could …
Notes from the Field / January 2011
Vanita Ramirez
One of Ken Wilber’s visions is of a world federation led by individuals at later stages of consciousness, individuals who can see with greater complexity and make decisions that will bring greater beauty, truth and goodness to all of us, individuals who support the evolution of consciousness in service to a better future for all. This kind of world federation is not yet a reality, however, there are individuals whose innovative forms of leadership have the potential to …
Notes from the Field / January 2011
Richard McGuigan
The Master of Arts program in Conflict Analysis and Engagement (CAE) at Antioch University Midwest (AUM) is a hybrid distributed learning program designed to engage the whole person and to facilitate the growth of consciousness and complexity of meaning-making among its students. In support of the Master of Arts program, several research studies are underway at the Feind Institute of Integral Research, located within the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Engagement (ICAE) at AUM. The purpose of our …
Leadership Emerging / January 2011
In Leadership Emerging we bring to your attention new texts of special interest and merit. Check out these promising titles…
ReVison: Special Issue on Transformative Leadership, Edited by Alfonso Montouri and Urusa Fahim, Winter 2010, Volume 30, Nos. 3 & 4.
Published almost a year ago, this highly relevant issue of ReVision includes articles by Montouri, Jay Ogilvy, Charles Hampden-Turner, Riane Eisler , Roger Harrison and others. On the opening page of the introductory piece on transformative leadership by …
Announcements / January 2011
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Integral Leadership Review Website Overhaul
As you no doubt have noticed, we are in the process of overhauling Integral Leadership Review, and creating a website that can accommodate new interactive Web 2.0 technologies. Eventually, all of the material from the original site will be brought into the new site and be indexed and searchable via topic, author or date.
In the meantime, please visit our archive page that gives you immediate access ten years of issues (listed by year/month), …
Feature Articles / January 2011
O. B. Ramasubramanian
Editors Note:The dawn of Independence in India also saw the breakdown of a dialogue between the believers in the Nehruvian Model of development and the Gandhian. What is visible today is the economic growth of India. However, with the global crises accelerating, the Gandhian perspectives of development and growth are becoming recognized as a possible long term solution while the negative fall outs of the Nehruvian Model that many see as the continuation of the colonial …
Feature Articles / January 2011
R. Sridhar
Editors Note: This paper narrates the author’s excitement in being able to find a convergence between his Orange Organizational Identity and his yearning to merge his Purple and Blue selves that don’t find expression in the business context. The Indian mind has been both luaded and criticised for being very flexible. What is not often understood is that a Green and Yellow underpinning that impacts the BLUE-purple form of Indian society. The average …
Feature Articles / January 2011
Manoj Pavitran in collaboration with Arul Dev
Telos is a model of consciousness and its evolutionary journey, based on the pioneering work of Sri Aurobindo1, a philosopher yogi and well known spiritual master of India who articulated an integral perspective nearly a century ago. Telos has in focus the evolutionary transformation of the individual who is the agent of change in groups in the context of a global evolutionary transformation, a core theme in Sri Aurobindo’s work. …