Category Archives: Leading Comments

12/21 – Leading Comments

Leading Comments / August - November 2014

Mark McCaslin

Welcome to the final release of the Integral Leadership Review for 2014. In reviewing the year I am totally astounded by the depth and breadth of the contributions made in our quest to discuss and learn about and around this thing we call leadership. If you are a regular reader I would recommend such a reflective journey – to skim back through the year’s offerings in order to gain an integral understanding of our vector and velocity. If …

9/24 – Leading Comments: Mid-Volume Release

Leading Comments / August - November 2014

Welcome to the mid-release of the August – November 2014 Volume of the Integral Leadership Review. We would also wish to welcome Benyamin Lichtenstein, PhD, University of Massachusetts, as our Associate Editor for Complexity. Expect to learn more about Ben in upcoming releases. New in this release you will find:

Fresh Perspective

Nancy Southern and Transformative Learning

Russ Volckmann

Feature Articles

Building Authentic Leadership by Innovating How You Lead

Maureen Metcalf

Integral Foundations for a New Politics

Bruce Schuman…

4/1 – April-June 2014 Issue

Leading Comments / April- June 2014

Mark McCaslin
Editor, Integral Leadership Review

Welcome to the April – June 2014 issue of the Integral Leadership Review. We are pleased by the responses we have received stemming from the new format of continuous publication of new Feature Articles, contributions from our wonderful Columnists, Coaching Tips, Book Reviews, Notes from the Field, Leadership Emerging, and Learner Papers. This continuous publication approach; April through June, August through November, and our special January-February issue, is a gift to our readers …

1/20 – Special Issue: Sub-Sahara Africa

Leading Comments / January-February 2014

Here are a few morsels to whet your appetite for more information about if an how adult development, integral, complexity and other perspectives are being used to understand leadership in this widely diverse region of the world. Our first installment includes an interview with Don Beck about his recent trip to South Africa. We hope to follow this up in three or four weeks with an interview with Graham Linscott, South African journalist and co-author with Don Beck of The

11/27 – Final Release for This Issue

Leading Comments / August-November 2013

I would like to welcome Sue L. T. McGregor, PhD, as Editor for Transdisciplinarity. Sue has published her own work in this filed in Integral Leadership Review and is co-author with me of Transversity: Transdisciplinary Approaches in Higher Education (Integral Publishers, 2011). She is a Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and is known internationally for her work in consumer economics and related topics. She continues to serve on the Integral Leadership Council for Integral Leadership Review

08/15 – New Directions

Leading Comments / August-November 2013

Welcome to the latest edition of the Integral Leadership Review. In addition, we would like to reveal our new format that is sure to please both our readers and authors alike. With the new format we are moving to a continuous publication venue. We will basically be dividing the year into three phases. Interviews, articles and other material will show up periodically during that period. So, with this current release of the August – November issue there is one …

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Leading Comments / June 2013

Mark McCaslin

What a pleasure it is to present the June issue of the Integral Leadership Review. This issue is packed with quality contributions and discussion concerning the nature of integral leadership. Be sure to check out Elza Maalouf’s and Russ Volckmann’s conversation in Fresh Perspectives. I think you will enjoy their discussion concerning Elza’s activities in the Middle East with Don Beck as they introduced spiral dynamics to Palestine. In addition, make sure you take a moment to …

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Leading Comments / March 2013

Welcome to another great issue of the Integral Leadership Review. What makes this issue so useful are the abundant quality contributions from so many springing from a broad spectrum of issues and opportunities surrounding the notion of Integral Leadership. I am quite sure you will agree once you experience the rich array of coaching tips, feature articles, columns, relevant issues from leadership emerging and notes from the field concerning Integral Leadership. In addition, don’t miss this issue of Particles. …

Special Issue: Leadership and Italy

Leading Comments / January 2013

Antonio Marturano

This ILR issue is dedicated to Italy. Very interestingly, Italy has had an amazing fabric of leaders and ideas on leadership since the Romans: Italy indeed did not only provide all kinds of leaders (from Machiavellian-amoralist leaders to saint and value-centred leaders) but also many Italian scholars have helped us to think about leadership. From Marc Aurelius, Machiavelli, Gramsci, to Agamben, today, Italian scholars have provided tools with which to understand the leadership phenomena. On the other hand …

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Leading Comments / October 2012

Russ Volckmann

These issues of ILR and of ilrParticles are late. This is the first time my memory will allow me to recognize that we are publishing late. What is late? I would be surprised if any of you know what our publication dates are, but this one IS late. Of course, I have an excuse. Truth be know there may be a whole set of excuses, but one major one: we migrated the ILR site to a new server. …