Category Archives: Leadership Emerging

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Leadership Emerging / August 2007

Reflections on Leadership. Richard A. Couto, ed. Lanham: University Press of America, Inc., 2007.

James MacGregor Burns published his major work, Leadership, in 1978. Probably more than any other individual work, this book birthed the field of leadership studies, particular in the area of politics and community. In the business sector, the subject was a subset of management. In the years to follow, the fact that there were at least two distinct subsets of leadership studies has led to proliferation …

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Leadership Emerging / June 2007

The Quest for a General Theory of Leadership, George Goethals and Georgia Sorenson, eds. Northampton, MA, US A: Edward Elgar, 2006.

This book represents a most robust look at the study of leadership while representing multiple disciplines in a “quest” to find agreement about leadership and theory. While the quest has not resulted in finding its prize, it is deemed a success by its participants for the learning that they shared during the journey. Still James MacGregor Burns, who …

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Leadership Emerging / March 2007

This section of Integral Leadership Review is provided to inform readers about current publications about leadership.— Russ Volckmann

In this issue we take a look at a new book by Porras et al. and some recent articles in Harvard Business Review.

Jerry Porras, Steward Emery and Mark Thompson,

Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters.

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing (Pearson Education, Inc.), 2007.

SUCCESS built to last! Think about it. Why do you

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Leadership Emerging / January 2007

Summary: Ken Wilber Conversation with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods

Part 1: The Future of Business is Integral

Part 2: The Future of Politics is Integral Too

http://in.integralinstitute.org/search.aspx?keyword=!business.

This is, perhaps, one of the most stimulating and insightful conversations on the subject of business and an integral approach that I know of—and this coming from someone who has done numerous interviews in this arena. Why do I offer such high praise? Well, part of it is how well Ken …

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Leadership Emerging / October 2006

Summary “Ideas as Art”

The HBR Interview with James G. March, Harvard Business Review, 84, 10, October 2006, pp. 83-89.

When I was a graduate student at Berkeley during the 1960s among the names of important contributors to organization theory was James G. March, along with others such as Peter Drucker, Herbert A. Simon, Wes Churchman and a few others. He has published a number of significant books beginning with Organizations (co-authored with Herbert A Simon) and A Behavioral Theory …