Category Archives: Leadership Emerging

Michelle Obama and the Business Roundtable

Leadership Emerging / March 2013

First Lady Michelle Obama Challenges America’s CEOs To Be Bold in Finding Ways to Hire Veterans

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/03/13/first-lady-michelle-obama-challenges-americas-ceos-be-bold-finding-ways-hire-veteran?utm_source=031413&utm_medium=photo&utm_campaign=daily

From a posting by Colleen Curtis
March 13, 2013

This issue has an unusual political presence, given the interviews with Terry Patten and Diane Krauthamer, Don Beck and Alfonso Monruori’s columns. Now this Leadership Emerging piece on Michelle Obama speaking to business leaders from Walmart to UPS, Motorola to Viacom, business that represent 16 million employees and $7.3 trillion worth of US revenue …

Jonathan Reams and Anne Caspari. Integral Leadership

Leadership Emerging / January 2013

Reams, J., & Caspari, A. (2012). Integral leadership: Generating space for emergence through quality of presence. Wirtschaftspsychologie, 14(3), 34-45.

Abstract: This article outlines a view of integral leadership as integrity with a quality of presence that opens spaces for what wants to emerge. A focus is on describing Heifetz’s notion of adaptive leadership as creating a holding environment for work to be done. This is framed in terms of how integrity, subtle energies and intuition combine with late stage

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Douglas Board, Choosing Leaders and Choosing to Lead

Leadership Emerging / January 2013

Choosing Leaders cover Douglas Board. Choosing Leaders and Choosing to Lead: Science, Politics and Intuition in Executive Selection. Burlington, VT: Gower Publishing Company, 2012.

It is not often I pick up a book with a Foreword by a baroness, Baroness Prashar of Runnymede. This baroness earned her title by serving as the First Civil Service Commissioner in the UK and other public service. Her assessment is that Douglas Board brings some fresh perspectives, long overdue, in the world of executive selection. Board, …

John Renesch, The Great Growing Up

Leadership Emerging / January 2013

The Great Growing Up cover John Renesch. The Great Growing Up: Being Responsible for Humanity’s Future. Prescott, AZ: HOHM Press, 2012.

John Renesch states that he coined the term conscious leadership in the early 1990s. Certainly, the blurbs supporting this book suggest that he has been long considered a positive force for development and change. For example, Patricia Aburdene, author of Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism, writes,

With so many of us struggling, we all need a vision of hope that

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Steven Snyder, Leadership and the Art of Struggle

Leadership Emerging / January 2013

Steven Snyder. Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and Adversity. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012.

With some reservations this book is an excellent approach to developing individuals for leader roles. First, the Foreword by Bill George is worth reading. In it you can see more of this self-reflective individual’s development that has led to an illustrious career in business, in academia and as an author. And George points right to one of the …

Lina M. Echeverria, Idea Agent

Leadership Emerging / January 2013

idea agent cover

Lina M. Echeverria. Idea Agent: Leadership That Liberates Creativity and Accelerates Innovation. New York: American Management Association, 2013.

I need to be up front about something before commenting on this book. It was recommended to me by two friends of mine who indicated the author was a friend of theirs. I did not anticipate that they would be highlighted in the Acknowledgements as inspiration and support for the book being written. Having said that, I want to assure the …

Antonio Marturano, Editorial, Leadership, 2012 8: 205

Leadership Emerging / January 2013

Antonio Marturano, Editorial, Leadership, 2012 8: 205.
http://lea.sagepub.com/content/8/3/205.citation

Antonio Marturano, ILR Bureau Chief for Italy and guest editor of this special issue, was the Editor of the August 2012 issue of Leadership, one of the leading academic journals on the subject. The material in this journal provides more in depth treatments of subjects also found in this special issue. He states,

Italy has had an amazing fabric of leaders and ideas on leadership even before the Romans: indeed,

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Philip Weiss, Hyperthinking

Leadership Emerging / January 2013

hyperthinking cover Philip Weiss. Hyperthinking: Creating a New Mindset for the Age of Networks. Burlington, VT: Gower Publishing, 2012.

In the world of integral leadership we read a lot about developing worldviews, values, consciousness and the like. Often cognitive development is assumed. In this small volume we find a presentation of an approach to thinking this is useful for changing life conditions in which networks of relationships are becoming more and more complex. Shifting perspectives, an idea very much supported by …

Bob Vanourek and Gregg Vanourek. Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations.

Leadership Emerging / October 2012

Bob Vanourek and Gregg Vanourek. Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012.

book cover Drawing from interviews with CEOs of sixty-one major corporations and organizations, this former CEO (Bob) and academic/entrepreneur (Gregg) have distilled five practices to generate excellent, ethical and enduring (the triple crown) organizations. These are:

• Head and Heart: Most organizations focus on knowledge, skills, and experience – head issues. Triple crown leader add character, emotional intelligence, and “fit” with the culture

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Stephen Brookes and Keith Grint, Eds. The New Public Leadership Challenge.

Leadership Emerging / October 2012

Stephen Brookes and Keith Grint, Eds. The New Public Leadership Challenge. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.

book cover The English/British Civil Service is a venerable institution that has left its imprint around the world, particularly where there was British colonial rule. In the intervening years there have been many changes in those cultures where it was established: India, Malaysia, Kenya, Belize – to mention but a few. Those changes have been the product of nationalized political cultures, the changing global economy, …