Category Archives: March 2013

Faisal Hoque. The Power of Convergence: Linking Business Strategies and Technology Decisions to Create Sustainable Success

Book Reviews / March 2013

cover Power of convergence Faisal Hoque, F. The Power of Convergence: Linking Business Strategies and Technology Decisions to Create Sustainable Success. New York: AMA, 2011.

Felisa J.Parris

Faisal Hoque, a former executive, is the founder and CEO of BTM Corporation. The BTM Corporation specializes in convergence transformative practices and best practices research. In 2008, Hoque was christened “Mr. Convergence” by CIO Quarterly magazine and named one of the top most influential peopled in technology. In The Power of Convergence: Linking Business Strategies and Technology…

Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley. The Emotional Life of your Brain.

Leadership Emerging / March 2013

cover Emotional Life of Your Brain Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley. The Emotional Life of your Brain. New York, New York: Hudson Street Press, 2012.

Mark Harman, M.D.

Current Psychology defines and explains one’s reactions and behaviors to their environment through statistical derivation of observed behavioral patterns. While predictable 70% of the time, these models fall short of an encompassing explanation. Drawing on his years of extensive research and knowledge in the field of Affective Neuroscience, Dr. Davidson outlines in his book, The Emotional Life …

Spiritual Intelligence and Integral Leadership

Feature Articles / March 2013

Alla Ratner

: Alla Ratner

Introduction

After 20 years in a successful leadership career, I experienced a loss of meaning. I felt locked into a dense isolation where going through one more day seemed intolerable. I was not aware that there could be a spiritual malady behind my professional and personal crisis. Spirituality was not a part of my vocabulary because I grew up in the atheistic culture of the former USSR and was taught to rely solely on my intellect. …

Living, Learning, and Leading within the Integral Space: Energizing Integral Leadership through Experiential Learning

Feature Articles / March 2013

Mark McCaslin and Jason Flora

There is an important relationship at work concerning integral leadership and the notion of the leader in a teaching and learning role. Integral leadership positions itself at the intersections of potential and therefore seeks the ability to use multiple approaches, multiple lenses, and to fashion the wide-reaching theoretical aims of leadership studies towards addressing existing problems and emergent opportunities. Integral Leadership illuminates the interrelationships occurring within this intersectional space, this transdisciplinary space, thereby inviting the …

A Voice of Labor: An Exploration with Diane Krauthamer, Editor, Industrial Worker

Fresh Perspective / March 2013

Russ Volckmann

Russ: I would like to welcome Diane Krauthamer, who has been involved in the labor movement for many years. We talk a lot about management and leadership and international development in organizations, NGOs, businesses and the like. But I think areas that we have severely neglected is the whole area of labor unions and other organizations that are trying to strengthen the roles of individuals in other occupations other than the ones we most typically represent. I think …

Transformation in Leadership, Part 1: A Developmental Study of Warren Buffett

Feature Articles / March 2013

Edward J. Kelly

Abstract

The following is a summary of my developmental research on Warren Buffett. The study concludes that Warren Buffett has gone through seven transformations in leadership and that his character development is largely responsible for his success as a leader.

Introduction

I first became actively interested in Warren Buffett in 1995 having read Roger Lowenstein’s The Making of an American Capitalist. Sometime later I started trying to invest like Buffett and shortly after that, and having

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Building a Village Community

Notes from the Field / March 2013

Ian McDonald

Nearly a year ago, one of the online Integral forums put out a request for case studies covering organisations where Spiral Dynamics Integral or the Integral lens had made a measurable difference to a project outcome. No sector or geographical boundaries. It became very clear to me, in reading the subsequent threads, that two of the most powerful sets of lenses have remained as intellectual toys – admired by thousands, played with by many but only used by …

Basarab Nicolescu Is Already 70 Years Old.

Notes from the Field / March 2013

Basarab Nicolescu is already 70 years old. Those who know him can hardly believe it. So young, so full of energy, at 70?

To understand this exceptional case we should get to know him more closely. This is what we tried to achieve in the past few months through many essays, sessions, articles and works, all dedicated to the great personality who is Basarab Nicolescu, an honorary member of the Romanian Academy, Professor at the University “Babes-Bolyai” of Cluj-Napoca.

You …

Tim Winton’s Pattern Dynamics™ Workshops in USA and Canada, January/February 2013

Notes from the Field / March 2013

David MacLeod, Trevor Malkinson, Alia Aurami, and Marilyn Hamilton

There was an evening workshop in Bellingham, WA, USA, the evening of January 29, 2013, and a one-day workshop in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on February 2, 2013.

Notes from David MacLeod on the Bellingham Workshop

PatternDynamics ™ is the brainchild of Tim Winton, who developed the concept over a period of 20 years working in sustainability. His background is in Permaculture, Integral Theory, and Natural Systems Design. Working closely with ecologically-designed …

Beyond Complexity

Feature Articles / March 2013

Eric Storm and Beth Meredith

It is common wisdom that leaders today must grapple with increasing amounts of complexity. This seems inevitable given our access to ever more information and our expanding awareness of and the connections between psychological, social, organizational, and technological factors. This is particularly true for integral leaders who are actively developing their mental models and related practices. As our cognitive complexity develops so too does our ability to perceive greater complexity. In other words our complexity …