Category Archives: Leadership Emerging

Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

Leadership Emerging / June 2012

Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. New York: HarperCollins, 2012.

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The opening quote of Multipliers summarizes the grand tour theory that those who are Multipliers make those they encounter feel like the smartest people in the room, while Diminishers suck the brainpower out of others by making sure people know that they hold the exclusive rights to intelligence. Written by Wiseman, an ex-Oracle executive, and McKeown, a student in Stanford’s Graduate …

Nick Petrie, Future Trends in Leadership Development: A White Paper.

Leadership Emerging / June 2012

Nick Petrie (December 2011). Future Trends in Leadership Development: A White Paper. Greensborough, North Carolina: Center for Creative Leadership.

Many of the ideas associated with integral leadership are beginning to show up in the mainstream business and organizational literature. Note, for example, the leader-follower-context model of Barbara Kellerman discussed in Russ Volckmann’s interview with her in this issue (June 2012) of Integral Leadership Review and Kellerman’s book, The End of Leadership. This white paper is another solid …

Jennifer Garvey Berger, Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World

Leadership Emerging / June 2012

Jennifer Garvey Berger. Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2012.

It is unusual to find an integrally informed author showing up in a university press, aside from SUNY and their integral series. Berger lives in a small seaside village in New Zealand, but her background is far more cosmopolitan than that:

Formerly an associate professor at George Mason University in Virginia in the US, Jennifer learned about deep change in

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Marjolein Klips-Wiersma and Lani Morris. The Map of Meaning: A Guide to Sustaining Our Humanity in the World of Work

Leadership Emerging / June 2012

Marjolein Klips-Wiersma and Lani Morris. The Map of Meaning: A Guide to Sustaining Our Humanity in the World of Work. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publications, 2011.

This book is exactly the kind of thing we should be looking forward to as a result of our efforts to meet the complexity facing us head on and in a way that facilitates our building clarity and meaning. The authors are offering a “holistic development model” that “helps to keep the human search …

Micha Popper. Fact and Fantasy About Leadership

Leadership Emerging / June 2012

Micha Popper. Fact and Fantasy About Leadership. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012.

Here is a book aligned with some of the thinking of folks like Barbara Kellerman and others who see the leader-follower relationship as essential to understanding either. The author states,

[W]e can visualize leadership as fire — a metaphor borrowed from the researchers Katherine Klein and Robert House, fire that is fed by three components: fuel (the followers), oxygen (the environmental context) and the spark (the leader).

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Susan Cain. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Leadership Emerging / June 2012

Susan Cain. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. New York: Crown Publishing, 2012.

Okay, I’m an introvert. Or am I? Am I centered in a Green or an Individualist level of development. Am I an Enneagram 7? So many categories. So many boxes. So many ways of practicing a reductionist approach to self, others and the world. Yet, we don’t need to fall into the reductionist trap. Rather than talking about introverts, why …

Richard Barrett. The New Leadership Paradigm: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading an Organization, Leading in Society

Leadership Emerging / June 2012

Richard Barrett. The New Leadership Paradigm: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading an Organization, Leading in Society. The Values Center, 2010.

If you are truly interested in adult development and/or integral leadership and organizations, the odds are you have already heard about this book, although it is self-published. Barrett is a highly respected consultant who has flirted with the world of integral, although you can search all 500+ pages of this book in vain to find a single reference to …

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Leadership Emerging / March 2012

The Language of Leadership: A Departure

I am taking something of a departure from my normal practice of providing highlights of a series of books related to the study and practice of leadership. I have found one chapter in one book to be so meaningful to me that I want to share it with you in some detail and add some of my own perspectives. I will offer some brief comments on a second book.

Before I continue, I want …

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Leadership Emerging / January 2012

[These brief explorations of books, articles and other content are intended to provide a flavor for their contents and an opportunity for me to seek out elements that are tributaries to the integral, developmental, transdisciplinary ocean of thought that I have being critical to our futures. I ask forgiveness if any of my comments seem to convey a lack of respect. To move toward that ocean of thought I hope we can draw on the insights and learning offered …

Leadership Emerging: Six Works of Leaders and Leadership

Leadership Emerging / October 2011

Steven Denning. The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative, Revised and Updated. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011.

I consider the book to be a classic and welcome Denning’s update.

Essentially he is offering guidance in oral communication. His suggestions mainly apply to using stories or business narrative in performing in a leader role effectively. He covers topics like making sure the story you tell fits the current context. He identifies foru key elements …