Leadership Quote / March 2011
Leadership is like a panicle of rice because at the height of the season, at the height of its power, it is beautiful, it is green, it nourishes the world, it reaches for the heavens; but right before the harvest it bends over with great gratitude and humility to touch the earth from where it came.
— Joseph Byaruhanga, From a Ted presentation by Jacqueline Novogratz
Book Reviews / March 2011
Sharda S. Nandram and Margot Esther Borden, Editors. Spirituality and Business: Exploring Possibilities for a New Management Paradigm. Berlin: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Publishers, 2010
Brian Van der Horst
Writing about spirituality and business has always seemed to me about as easy as nailing Jello to a wall. However, the editor/authors of this book have done a noble academic job of collecting a wide variety of examples and approaches to facilitating and utilizing personal evolution in the workplace.
Dr. Sharda S.Nadram …
Feature Articles / March 2011
John M. Bunzl
There has hardly been an epoch in which organisations played a more prominent role than our own. Be they governments, businesses or non-governmental organisations (NGOs), all of them deeply affect our lives and society as a whole. Moreover, at this time of deepening global crisis and change, understanding the systemic ways organisations impact on society and the natural environment is becoming critically important.
From the perspective of Ken Wilber’s integral theory, it is the leadership of organisations …
Book Reviews / March 2011
Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of Leadership
by Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja
(New York: HarperCollins), 2011.
Bruce Gibb
The authors purport to present a “brand new theory of leadership, grounded in evolutionary science” which they dub the “Evolutionary Theory of Leadership” or ELT. They accept what they call the textbook definition of a leader: “A leader is someone able to exert social influence on others to accomplish a common goal.”
In general Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of …
Leadership Coaching Tips / March 2011
Leadership Coaching From an SDi Perspective
Rachel Castagne
Leader: A person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country.
‘To lead’: To cause a person or animal to go with one, especially by drawing them along or by preceding them to a destination.
Clare Graves’ research and theory on levels of existence, or Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi) as it is been made more widely known through Dr Don Beck, gives us useful insights into both the nature of …
Announcements / March 2011
The Center for Human Emergence Netherlands
Fifth annual Spiral Dynamics integral EuroConFab, April 8 -10, 2011
Almere, The Netherlands
Register at http://www.schoolofsynnervation.nl/en/news_201012_Confab.php
The purpose is to create an internationally shared field of best practices of emergence and evolutionary change.
Share and discuss your findings and challenges as a SDi practitioner
We invite you to put forward your experiences, quests and questions and exchange, share and co-create them with the other participants. Send us a short description of your subject …
Coda / March 2011
Reflections on Guggenbhul-Craig’s Power in the Helping Professions.
Recently, Jeannie and I had the pleasure of being the guests of Don Benson and Helen Spector (Benson) while they were vacationing in Sedona, Arizona. Don is a much-ion-demand consultant on supply change management, as well as an innovator and entrepreneur. In addition, he is probably the most widely read individual that I have ever known. He seems to consume books as frequent intellectual snacks in his otherwise full life.
During …
Fresh Perspective / March 2011
The following interview is one of many initially conducted as part of the research for a writing project. We hope to share more of these interviews, because the work of these entrepreneurs and executives demonstrates the viability of a well conceived leader development program—in this case the Stagen Integral Leadership Program based in Dallas, Texas. Their focus is on developing integral leaders among the CEOs and executives in mid-sized companies. They have also provided similar training to the leaders of …
Notes from the Field / March 2011
Evolving States and Stages of Consciousness
Venita Ramirez, Geoff Fitch and Terri O’Fallon
How do people develop? What do the later stages of consciousness look like? Are there methods and practices we can employ to facilitate the process? Robert Kegan (1994), Suzanne Cook-Greuter (2002) and others have contributed a great deal to the field of adult development in recent years. Still, we have much more to learn. For example, until now, we haven’t really known what it takes to help …
Feature Articles / March 2011
Sue L. T. McGregor
Acknowledgement: Sincere gratitude to Professor Basarab Nicolescu (President of International Center for Transdisciplinary Research, CIRET) for vetting a draft of this paper, and for being such a gracious and patient TD-mentor.
This paper is about transdisciplinary (TD) methodology, especially TD ontology. Methodology is a branch of knowledge that deals with the general principles or axioms of the generation of new knowledge: epistemology, ontology, logic and axiology (Ponterotto, 2005). The methodology determines the research questions, theories …