Leading Others / January-February 2015
Linda Shore
I am thrilled about the potential that exists in a world that finds us moving from green to integral yellow on the Spiral Dynamic map of human growth, where all four burners of the AQAL map of human possibility are fully ignited. Hail to the 4 voices! And while I am integrally jazzed, I wonder – how do we actually DO integral? More specifically, if I came across integral leadership how would I know it, and what would …
Notes from the Field / January-February 2015
Integral Workshop on December 18-21 at the Center for Development of Entrepreneurs (Sberbank) in Izhevsk.
Eugene Pustoshkin
I was invited to come to Izhevsk on December 18-21, 2014. There is a group of people who work on Integral development of this city and promoting ideas of holistic vision as applied to urbanism. The group is spearheaded by Lev Gordon, the President of Gordon Foundation and a Harvard Business School alumnus with extensive experience of living in the West and working …
Fresh Perspective / January-February 2015
Marilyn: Well, I want to just start our interview with an expression of gratitude. We’re in Canada and this happens to be the week before Thanksgiving. So I thought it would be really speaking from my heart to say thank you very much for taking the courage to open, what I’m calling a “portal” from where new leadership has been emerging. When you started Integral Coaching Canada (ICC), I really think you opened something very new to the world. …
Leading Organizations / January-February 2015
Michael Chender
Authentic Leadership in Action — ALIA — had its first program in 2001 as the Shambhala Institute, subsequently named the Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership. It has operated continually since then, and in November 2014 merged with the Authentic Leadership program at Naropa University to create Naropa’s Authentic Leadership Center. What follows are my own views on some of the things that we have learned on this journey.
ALIA began out of an ongoing conversation among a group …
Leadership Coaching Tips / January-February 2015
Tam Lundy
“Our best hope for the future is to develop a new paradigm of human capacity to meet a new era of human existence”.
Sir Ken Robinson
These days there’s lots of talk about adaptive change and adaptive leadership.
Framing adaptive leadership as a more adequate response to complex challenges, Harvard University’s Ronald Heifetz points to a common blind spot: the assumption that complexity can be tamed through technical problem solving. In future, he advises, …
Book Reviews / January-February 2015
Trevor Malkinson
This new cosmological model called the human being comes equipped with the creative power of a supernova, the radiance of a golden spruce, the resiliency of our bacterial cousins, the determination of a spawning Coho salmon, and the heart-wisdom of Sophia. And in the “fullness of time”, Jesus emerges, a perfect reflection of the light of God. – Bruce Sanguin, Darwin, Divinity and the Dance of the Cosmos- An Ecological Christianity
Leading Organizations / January-February 2015
Julia Fortier and Karen Kun
Abstract: As a youth focused water facilitation organization, Waterlution is constantly exploring new ways to build dynamic young water leaders. For the last twelve years, Waterlution has engaged over four thousand youth and five hundred expert resource guests in its community-based programming. By engaging local young leaders (change-agents) Waterlution supports them in developing the motivation, contacts, knowledge and understanding needed to lead change around water across sectors, projects and communities.
Adaptive leaders and communities …
Leading Self / January-February 2015
Edith Friesen and Edith Friesen
EF: Before we start, there’s something you need to know.
IN: Okay…
EF: I’m not sure why they asked me to do this interview. Mostly, I just write and guide writers. And I do a little communications work. I don’t usually think of myself as a leader.
IN: Am I hearing that storied Canadian modesty? Or a woman who hasn’t yet come into her own?
EF: Can you drop the knife already?
IN: Sorry. Let’s …
Leading Comments / January-February 2015
Marilyn Hamilton
Reticence. Modesty. Loyalty. Generosity. These qualities often mark the Canadian character and our propensity to downplay the adventure, excitement, daring, risk and courage that influence how we tell our stories of accomplishment and achievement. But those are not the words that sprung to mind when Russ Volckmann invited me to be Guest Editor of this Canada issue of Integral Leadership Review (ILR-C).
Pattern making. Pattern recognition. Pattern amplification. Excessive Network Connecting. These …
Continuous Learning / January-February 2015
Sue L. T. McGregor
The world is facing a polycrisis of complex problems – a cacophony of irreversible climate change and ecological imbalance, global pandemics, escalating terrorism, conflict and aggression, unsustainable consumerism, debilitating poverty, reoccurring political and economic crises, worrying population growth and migration, uneven wealth and income distribution, uneven and unsustainable growth and development, insecurity on many levels – the litany goes on.
These are all wicked messes, problems so named because they are not easy to control or …