Category Archives: March 2009

Feature Article: Towards an Integral Leadership Vision in Software Development

Feature Articles / March 2009

keesThis article, primarily using the stages of development component of Ken Wilber’s Integral framework, follows the emerging group dynamics models that are coming apparent in current post-postmodern environments and how one such model was used at Integral Life in the IT Development efforts.

Introduction

Software development is one of the most challenging and evolving areas of business today. The development of solutions stepping from vision to requirements, analysis, design, development and finally rollout coupled with technology advances and people issues …

Integral for the Masses: Suffer Little Children

Integral for the Masses / March 2009

Keith BellamyThe ancient Chinese curse, “May your children live in interesting times” is well and truly upon us. With every passing day, life as we have come to know and love it seems to be unraveling at the seams. For many, a wave of suffering is washing away expectations, and lifestyles are being torn to shreds by the man-made tsunami that is upon us; we are at a bifurcation point in our lives longing for the past but having to create

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / March 2009

3 laws coverSteve Zaffron and Dave Logan, The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.

Drawing on “an interdisciplinary slew of disciplines as disparate as brain science, linguistics, organizational theory, and complex adaptive systems with a few fundamental laws of human and organizational behavior” (Warren Bennis in the Editor’s note), these authors are reaching for the kinds of integrative approaches to leadership we seek. The authors were brought together by the …

Feature Article: Are You Ready to Play the Integral Way? The Next Evolution of Leadership

Feature Articles / March 2009

For Victoria and Julian

Introduction

patricia von papsteinAs conscious leaders, we feel responsible for the life quality on this planet. We invent and design products and services that are sustainable and provide deep support, i.e., they are tools for life assistance. We initiate social responsibility projects. We fund creative industries. We invest in water protection, healthcare prevention and e-learning. We support projects for understanding and forgiveness between sexes, generations, political and cultural belief systems. From our individual perspective, we want to create …

Feature Article: Transforming a Leader and his Organization An Approach, a Case Study, and Measurable Results

Feature Articles / March 2009

metcalflipetzThis article looks at the question: “What is the developmental impact of a client who engages in individual coaching and consulting where the focus is integral in nature and the coach is functioning at least one full developmental level above the client?” In this study, the coaching and consulting support focused primarily on leadership development and used traditional interventions associated with management consulting. To provide the perspective of the client, Robert Weisenburger Lipetz, MBA, the client organization CEO, offers his

Book Review: Transdisciplinary Horizons

Book Reviews / March 2009

Russ VolckmannLest you are concerned that this may be another academic treatise and of little practical value, please consider this: How we make meaning in the world governs all of our choices and influences our actions. The reason that work in fields such as integral and transdisciplinarity is so important is that they offer far more powerful ways of making meaning in our lives, our work and our relationships. Let’s face it. The universe is giving us a lot of feedback

Announcements

Announcements / March 2009

Peter Merry, Evolutionary Leadership

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ALIA Institute Authentic Leadership Programs

Join Bill Torbert and an inspired community of thought-leaders at the Authentic Leadership in Action (ALIA) Institute programs. ALIA Institute offers a uniquely dynamic and integrative model of leadership development that includes skill-building modules, plenary sessions, creative process and mindfulness meditation. In such times of profound change, we invite you to release your capacity for innovation and …

Fresh Perspective: Entrepreneurship and Self-Development: A Conversation with Brian Johnson of PhilosophersNotes

Fresh Perspective / March 2009

brian johnsonruss volckmannRuss: Brian Johnson, I welcome you to the Integral Leadership Review. I’m really excited about our talk today.

Brian: Likewise. I appreciate the invitation.

Russ: I discovered in hunting you down that you’re no longer on the mainland US; you’re on Bali. What are you doing there?

Brian: I like to say I left my iPhone and my personal history in Los Angeles. I came out here for what I intended to be a sabbatical for a few months, and …

Notes from the Field: London Integral Salon Notes from the Field January 18, 2009 A Dialogue and Discussion on Integral Politics With John Bunzl and Victor Anderson, Facilitated by Michael Herrick

Notes from the Field / March 2009

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andersonThe dialogue was constructed around a series questions to explore the existence and potential nature of Integral Politics. This summary only attempts to cover those points raised in the dialogue not the ensuing discussion. These notes are an effort to capture the flavour of the contributions of the invited speakers during the course of the evening.

Does Barack Obama show signs of being integral and what might we expect from his administration?

VA Obama’s ability to appeal to religious as …