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Leadership Quote / September 2002

“What is Integral Leadership?”
“Integral Leadership comprises:
“A way of being and leading oneself and others which significantly enhances the capacity to create meaningful and desirable futures by transcending, including and aligning multiple, often conflicting perspectives and value systems.
“Through the application of this approach, integral leaders are better able to:
  • Align complex sets of value systems to achieve super ordinate goals in an ethical, timely fashion.
  • Generate coherence in stressful and conflict-producing situations, and elicit resonance within and between

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Leadership Quote / August 2002

“What is Integral Leadership?”
“Integral Leadership comprises:

“A way of being and leading oneself and others which significantly enhances the capacity to create meaningful and desirable futures by transcending, including and aligning multiple, often conflicting perspectives and value systems.

“Through the application of this approach, integral leaders are better able to:

  • Align complex sets of value systems to achieve super ordinate goals in an ethical, timely fashion.
  • Generate coherence in stressful and conflict-producing situations, and elicit resonance within and between

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Leadership Quote / July 2002

“At the moment people are saying, as if they’re bewildered, ‘Why haven’t we got any great leaders? Why haven’t we got another Churchill? Why haven’t we got another Roosevelt or somebody to show us the way?’ Well, it’s simply because nature is telling us it’s projection. The age of leaders has come and gone. Every person must be his or her own leader now. You must remove your projection, and contain the spirit of our time in your own life

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Leadership Quote / May 2002

“The notion of the CEO as heroic leader is one that you’ve heard so often that you’ve probably come to believe it: The CEO is the company, a heroic leader who single-handedly steers the business to success.The problem with the notion of heroic leadership, of course, is not just that it’s preposterous on the face of it. It is also corrosive to the connection that needs to exist between a real leader and the people who make the company work.

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Leadership Quote / April 2002

“…in the twenty-first century, a company of leaders is a competitive advantage. Indeed, in the business world of the twenty-first century, a company of leaders is arguably a necessity.” ~Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Robert E. Quinn, A Company of Leaders, 2001

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Leadership Quote / March 2002

“Mustering the courage to interrogate reality is a central function of a leader. And that requires the courage to face three realities at once. First, what values do we stand for–and are there gaps between those values and how we actually behave? Second, what are the skills and talents of our company–and are there gaps between those resources and what the market demands? Third, what opportunities does the future hold–and are there gaps between those opportunities and our ability to

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Leadership Quote / February 2002

“There are many leaders, not just one. Leadership is distributed. It resides not solely in the individual at the top, but in every person at every level who, in one way or another, acts as a leader to a group of followers – wherever in the organization that person is, whether shop steward, team head, or CEO.” ~Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, 2002

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Leadership Quote / January 2002

“In British Coal, there was no leadership. Managers simply followed the dictate of the government.But when I joined the union in the 1960’s, miners were the thought leaders at the vanguard of improvements for working people and society. Mining destroys your lungs, crushes your body.
“Working underground makes you crave improvement. A century before, it was the miners’ dues that helped build institutes of learning, theaters, libraries, reading rooms.
“Our job in the union was not only to represent our

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Leadership Quote / December 2001

“Unless we respect the reality of the inner world, commensurate in importance with that of the external world, we are not equipped to understand the full meaning of leadership nor are we able to improve it dramatically, radically. Seeing only half of reality makes us only half a leader. Acknowledging only fifty percent of what is true, gives us a maximum of fifty percent effectiveness as a leader.
“The answers to leadership questions are in the inner world. But they

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Leadership Quote / November 2001

“The whole concept of the all-knowing, omnipotent leader is over. Employees know this isn’t reality–and value a more candid dialogue.” ~Kate Lye, Smythe Dorward Lambert, MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2001”