Notes from the Field / June 2012
Julia Fischer
On the weekend of March 3rd and 4th, 2012, I attended the first in the series of workshops, Encountering the Beloved, with Terry Patten (and Deborah Boyar). When I arrived, Michael Pergola – whose Integral Alignment organization put on the workshop series – was speaking in a visionary tone. He said that only when we’re open to the emergent, receptive feminine are we ready to open to action. He spoke about how we’re all refugees, …
Feature Articles / June 2012
Bonnita Roy and George Herget
This exploration between George and me came about as a result of a conversation between George and Russ Volckmann. Russ could see a special kind of wisdom in George’s stories of the way people and horses can team up to deliver exceptional performance. I have been working with horses and people in relation to horses for many years. Since Russ knows that I use a fair amount of horse metaphors when talking about leadership and …
Feature Articles / June 2012
Arthur ten Wolde
A hopeful trend in these turbulent times is that more and more people are becoming aware of their own motives. They are identifying, on the one hand, what really matters to them like family, justice, and social success and/or the environment. On the other hand, they are also aware of their own fears and frustrations. And not only that! A growing group tries to integrate these insights into their …
Leadership Emerging / June 2012
Marjolein Klips-Wiersma and Lani Morris. The Map of Meaning: A Guide to Sustaining Our Humanity in the World of Work. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publications, 2011.
This book is exactly the kind of thing we should be looking forward to as a result of our efforts to meet the complexity facing us head on and in a way that facilitates our building clarity and meaning. The authors are offering a “holistic development model” that “helps to keep the human search …
Leadership Emerging / June 2012
Micha Popper. Fact and Fantasy About Leadership. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012.
Here is a book aligned with some of the thinking of folks like Barbara Kellerman and others who see the leader-follower relationship as essential to understanding either. The author states,
…[W]e can visualize leadership as fire — a metaphor borrowed from the researchers Katherine Klein and Robert House, fire that is fed by three components: fuel (the followers), oxygen (the environmental context) and the spark (the leader).
Leadership Emerging / June 2012
Susan Cain. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. New York: Crown Publishing, 2012.
Okay, I’m an introvert. Or am I? Am I centered in a Green or an Individualist level of development. Am I an Enneagram 7? So many categories. So many boxes. So many ways of practicing a reductionist approach to self, others and the world. Yet, we don’t need to fall into the reductionist trap. Rather than talking about introverts, why …
Leadership Emerging / June 2012
Richard Barrett. The New Leadership Paradigm: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading an Organization, Leading in Society. The Values Center, 2010.
If you are truly interested in adult development and/or integral leadership and organizations, the odds are you have already heard about this book, although it is self-published. Barrett is a highly respected consultant who has flirted with the world of integral, although you can search all 500+ pages of this book in vain to find a single reference to …
Leading Comments / June 2012
Russ Volckmann
Recently, I had a phone conversation with a colleague who has contributed to ILR in the past and who is in what Barbara Kellerman, Harvard Professor and author of the new book, The End of Leadership (see interview in this issue – a must read!) calls the “leadership industry.” That she is a part of this community is not surprising for I suspect at least half of the people who contribute through articles, reviews or interviews are in …
Coda / June 2012
I think we all get that we are but miniscule elements in a vast universe, perhaps but one universe among many. Perhaps this sense of awe underlies much of spiritual and religious practices around the world. I was recently reminded of this provoker of humility by this photograph.
Source: Nasa http://www.acienciasgalilei.com/program/fondosescrt/saturno4-cassini-800.htm
If you look very, very closely you can see Earth near the upper gray ring at about the 280° position. If you increase the size of this picture or …
Notes from the Field / June 2012
Mark McCaslin
I had the opportunity to travel to Santa Cruz, California to attend the Integral Leadership in Action conference. With my increasing involvement with the Integral Leadership Review I was very excited about the opportunity to learn more about this emerging age of leadership. I was also looking forward to engaging others in the field in discussions and through a rich variety of presentations. As I …