Category Archives: Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / October 2009

Leader’s Way coverHis Holiness the Dalai Lama and Laurens Van Den Muyzenberg. The Leader’s Way. Boston: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2009.

How could you not want to read a collaboration between the Dalai Lama and a Dutch business consultant? The intrigue is even stronger when we discover that this book was in the making for nine years (1991-2000)—years of periodic meetings and consultations! And then another seven years of creating the book!

The result is an interestingly presented set of ideas in which …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / August 2009

Milton Friesen. Ingenuity Arts: Adaptive Leadership and the New Science. Airdrie, Alberta, Canada: Ingenuity Arts, 2009.

Friesen models his topic by integrating a variety of topics into a perspective on leadership. Essentially drawing on complexity theory his focus is on approaches to organizational leadership that goes beyond theories and models and has relevance as well in the implementation of transformational activities. This involves charting and following a course of action into a future we cannot see, but only assume. It …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / June 2009

Ciulla Ethics coverJoanne B. Ciulla, Ed. Ethics, the Heart of Leadership, 2nd edition with a Foreword by James MacGregor Burns. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004.

Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people, based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good. [xv] At the heart of this relationship lies ethics, including:

  1. The ethics of the means,
  2. The ethics of person,
  3. The ethics of the ends.

Ciulla argues that “a …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / March 2009

3 laws coverSteve Zaffron and Dave Logan, The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.

Drawing on “an interdisciplinary slew of disciplines as disparate as brain science, linguistics, organizational theory, and complex adaptive systems with a few fundamental laws of human and organizational behavior” (Warren Bennis in the Editor’s note), these authors are reaching for the kinds of integrative approaches to leadership we seek. The authors were brought together by the …

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Leadership Emerging / October 2008

David V. Day, Michelle M. Harrison and Stanley M. Halpin. An Integrative Approach to Leader Development: Connecting Adult Development, Identity, and Expertise. New York: Routledge, 2008.

There will be an “in depth” review of this book in the January 2009 issue of Integral Leadership Review. Here I intend only to make you aware of this recently published work that I consider to be very significant. It is one of those rare books that bring an integral perspective to the …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / August 2008

Inc. cover“CEO Survey: Forward March,” Inc. Special Issue 500: Meet This Year’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, Inc. September 2008. P. 212.

Elements of their CEO Survey a spread liberally throughout the publication show no statistics that I could find and excerpt out very few comments. They asked CEO’s to define their leadership styles. Here is the sampling of their response. These are entrepreneurs who are experiencing success in their respective industries.

Laid back with a single focus: the client. I wear sandals …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / June 2008

The Offsite coverRobert H. Thompson The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable, Forward by Jim Kouzes. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

A student and now associate of Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, authors of The Leadership Challenge and several other books, Robert H. Thompson has produced another of those books about leadership in business that uses the fictional story format to make its points. This is one of two genres of business books designed to sell in the highly competitive business book field. …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / March 2008

Spiritual Leadership in the Entreprenurial BusinessMario Fernando, Spiritual Leadership in the Entrepreneurial Business: A Multifaith Study. Northampton, MA, USA or Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007.

Globilization is not just a phenomenon of economics and business. We have long known that it is a phenomenon of culture, as well. The Integral Leadership Review seeks to be a leader in the globilization of knowledge development that will offer alternatives to historic patterns and open segments of many cultures to more integrative ways of perceiving, comprehending and …

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Leadership Emerging / January 2008

Opposable Mind Roger Martin bookcoverRoger Martin. The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.

University of Toronto Dean of the Rotman School of Management Martin has provided us with an overview of the model and development approaches for working with MBA students in teaching them integrative thinking. In doing so, he draws on an extensive collection of interviews that he has conducted with leaders in business and other fields to provide stories of their use …

Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / November 2007

Chemers Integrative TheoryMartin M. Chemers, An Integrative Theory of Leadership, Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1997.

Stimulated by the author’s chapter in Richard Couto’s edited volume, Reflections on Leadership, I have gone back to his book published in the late 1990s to see what we might learn about his approach to integrating theories of leadership. To begin with, let’s look at how he approaches this by framing the notion of leadership. “…leadership contributes to the realization of organizational …