Category Archives: Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging: Descriptions of Books, Articles and Other Media

Leadership Emerging / August 2011

Descriptions of varying lengths of books, articles and other media that might be of interest to those who are interested in leading and leadership.

Russ Volckmann

 

Bruce J. Avolio. Full Range Leadership, 2nd Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2011.

Bruce Avolio has been a top researcher and thought leader in the area of leader development for many years. (See interview, http://integralleadershipreview.com/2011/06/fresh-perspective-3/), The 2nd edition of his major work on leader development reflects much of the evolution of his thinking …

Leadership Emerging: Descriptions of Books, Articles and Other Media

Leadership Emerging / June 2011

Richard Barrett, The New Leadership Paradigm, www.valuescenter.com www.newleadershipparadigm.com, Lulu.com, 508 pages.

Jonathan Reams

Last March I found myself spending a day at a European ALIA event co-sponsored by the Progressio Foundation. I was looking forward to meeting new faces and networking with like-minded individuals. Much to my surprise and pleasure, the opening speaker turned out to be Richard Barrett. Twelve years earlier, I had invited Richard to come and present at an event hosted in my small community of Nelson …

Leadership Emerging: Descriptions of Books, Articles and Other Media

Leadership Emerging / March 2011


Kirsty Spence and Mark McDonald, Linking Developmental Action Logics to Transformational Leadership Behaviors, Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, December 2010.

Aside from a couple of early articles of an introductory nature and Clint Fuhs integral examination of eight leadership books, articles on leadership in JITP have been rare. This should not be too surprising in that this journal addresses every possible field to which an integral approach or perspective might be applied. There was a special issue on …

Leadership Emerging: Descriptions of Books, Articles and Other Media

Leadership Emerging / January 2011

In Leadership Emerging we bring to your attention new texts of special interest and merit. Check out these promising titles…

ReVison: Special Issue on Transformative Leadership, Edited by Alfonso Montouri and Urusa Fahim, Winter 2010, Volume 30, Nos. 3 & 4.

Published almost a year ago, this highly relevant issue of ReVision includes articles by Montouri, Jay Ogilvy, Charles Hampden-Turner, Riane Eisler , Roger Harrison and others. On the opening page of the introductory piece on transformative leadership by …

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Leadership Emerging / June 2010

John Marshall Roberts. Igniting Inspiration: A Persuasion Manual for Visionaries. Self-published, 2008.

roberts coverFirst, I am surprised that this book has been out so long and only recently showing up on my radar screen. Why? Because I think it is an important book, particularly for those who wish to go beyond theory and model into the world of implementation. We have reported numerous items about application of integral and adult developmental approaches to cultures, organizations and individuals. One of the …

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Leadership Emerging / June 2010

Frederick Darbellay, Moira Cockell, Jerome Billotte, Francis Waldvogel, Editors.A Vision of Transdisciplinarity: LayingFoundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue. Laussanne, Switzerland: EPFL Press, 2008.

Dartbellay coverThis book deserves a far more in depth review that I will be able to offer at this time. It represents something that is very much at the heart of transdisciplinarity: given the growing complexity of the challenges we face in the world (or, at least, our appreciation of complexity), the pursuit of intelligent responses …

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Leadership Emerging / June 2010

Elizabeth Doty. The Compromise Trap: How to Thrive at Work Without Selling Your Soul. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2009.

doty coverThe Foreword is written by Art Kleiner, editor of the online publication Strategry+Business. He notes that business ethics is a thorny issue. He values this book because of “the questions it raises about organizational ethics and its underlying message about the practice of healthy compromise.” A central point of the book is “The relationship between an employee and an organization is …

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Leadership Emerging / June 2010

Linda Tarr-Whelan. Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2009.

tarr-whelan coverThe premise behind this book is that there is a 30% solution to gender imbalance in leadership of businesses and government. By filling the chairs at the tables of decision making the character of our organizations and our collective actions will shift. Women will provide a particular set of skills, competencies and worldviews based on building relationships and …

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Leadership Emerging / March 2010

arbingerThe Arbinger Institute. Leadership and Self-Deception. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler 2010.

Self-deception shapes our experiences of life. This book seeks to determine the extent and implications of how it blinds us to seeing the true causes of our problems. The work of the Institute in teaching people about self-deception and how to address it is that it “sharpens vision, reduces feelings of conflict, enlivens the desire for teamwork, redoubles accountability, magnifies the capacity to achieve results and deepens satisfaction and …

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Leadership Emerging / January 2010

wibbeke coverE.S. Wibbeke. Global Business Leadership. Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009.

What could be more natural than to discover a more robust treatment of leadership than one that requires attention to cultural diversity? That is what we find in Wibberke’s treatment of leadership in global businesses. Granted, the focus of his discussion is on American business leaders in different cultural environments from Canada to Europe, the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere. But much of what he attends to would be useful …