Leadership Quote / October 2011
“Presence – or its lack – has enormous consequences for leaders. Presence grants genuine leadership authority by building trust and inspiring others. This is quite a bit different from the leadership that is conferred by position, title, or status”
Richard Strozzi-Heckler
President,Strozi Institute
Author, The Leadership Dojo…
Notes from the Field / October 2011
Venwoude, the Netherlands 24th – 28th August 2011
Nynke Feenstra
At the beautiful retreat Venwoude we came together to explore and embody Integral Sustainability Leadership. Our group was 20 participants with 8 different nationalities from 4 generations. The seminar that was designed and organised by Anouk Brack, Miriam van Groen and Rik Hoevers amongst others, from Experience Integral, invited us into an impressive flow following Otto Scharmer’s U process. Every part in the program had its meaning and place …
Feature Articles / October 2011
Leida Schuringa
In this article you will find the integral story of the Quality Centre Refugee Women. The Quality centre supports refugee women to discover and develop their talents in Dutch society. The preparation of this initiative started 5 years ago and in November 2007 we got financed by the Orange Foundation for a period of three years. It is really a challenge to tell the story from an observer’s perspective and to draw a whole picture …
Feature Articles / October 2011
Josina van den Acker
This article is written in the context of the global need to act sustainably, which according to Smith and Stewart (2010) requires that we open our selves to opportunities to work together, collaborate and see our needs differently.
The main part of this article is written as a letter to an imagined person. As an autoethnography it may help the reader to imagine a better way of addressing diversity in the global context of higher education, …
Notes from the Field / October 2011
Review of Design Me a Planet
Michel Nguyen The
“Design Me a Planet” (“Dessine-moi une planète”) is the name of project founded by Michel Saloff-Coste and which is still in construction. The name comes from the sentence “Dessine-moi un mouton !” (“Draw me a sheep!”) taken from The Little Prince from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The idea is to create a think-and-do-tank on the theme of creating a vision for the future, and not only incrementing from today, as it …
Notes from the Field / October 2011
Review of 12th Integral University Day
Michel Nguyen The
On Tuesday 24th May 2011 took place the 12th day of the Parisian Integral University. The theme was “integral societies and politics”. Many speakers were part of the Club of Budapest: Ervin Laszlo himself, Bénédicte Fumey, Carine Dartiguepeyrou and Michel Saloff-Coste. Edgar Morin was on the agenda but was too tired to make it as he was between other conferences. Alain Gauthier made a presentation on integral leadership …
Leadership Coaching Tips / October 2011
Erik Mazziotta
As Integral coaches we have the tool of the AQAL model to support our clients in addressing the issues they present and help them expand their awareness. Inviting our clients to consciously look at their concerns and aspirations through the different lenses of the model provides them with leverage to distill what is important to them and the actions available to them.
Invoking the lens of the four quadrants through inquiry is particularly effective in helping the …
Notes from the Field / October 2011
Foreno Van Der Hulst and Willow Dea
In preparation for the Embodying Integral Sustainability seminar, facilitated by Experience Integral in August, Willow Dea and I prepared a 90 minutes session on Profit and Business Model Generation.
Foreno: The motivation to do this was the following: During my master’s program in Sustainable Development, I was interested in learning more about economics and business, as these fields have such a big impact on the social and natural environment. In …
Feature Articles / October 2011
Elizabeth F. Turesky, Kristen S. Cloutier and Marisa F. Turesky
The authors address the dynamic interaction between culture and gendered leadership perceptions. Using Hofstede’s cultural framework of the masculinity/femininity dimension, this study explores the ways fourteen Italian women have achieved and sustained successful leadership positions in Italy and then evaluates how Italy’s dimension of masculinity/femininity affects women’s opportunities as emerging leaders. Finally, the authors conclude with suggestions for managers in Italy, which can be applied to other masculine …
Learner Papers / October 2011
Barrett C. Brown
An overview of the complexity leadership literature is provided. This includes a history of complexity theory and its core concepts, the central propositions of complexity leadership, a review of six prominent frameworks, and a summary of practitioner guidelines. The article also discusses two key limitations to complexity theory: the need to supplement it with other epistemologies and leadership approaches, and the importance of recognizing that its sustained execution likely …