Leading Comments / August 2012
Before looking at the material we are providing in this issue of ILR, I would like to thank our interns for 2011-2012.
If it were not for this team of interns there would be a lot more typos and questionable editing than there is. However, I must take full responsibility for any that you still find. Sometimes, the pressures …
Leading Comments / June 2012
Russ Volckmann
Recently, I had a phone conversation with a colleague who has contributed to ILR in the past and who is in what Barbara Kellerman, Harvard Professor and author of the new book, The End of Leadership (see interview in this issue – a must read!) calls the “leadership industry.” That she is a part of this community is not surprising for I suspect at least half of the people who contribute through articles, reviews or interviews are in …
Leading Comments / March 2012
In the following recent announcement from the International Leadership Association, Barbara Kellerman is raising questions, many of which we have been trying to address in the pages of Integral Leadership Review for years now. Read the ad and then think with me about some of the key points she is making:
…The End of Leadership
Featuring Barbara Kellerman
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT Registration is free for ILA members and only $24.95 for non-members.
Leading Comments / January 2012
Nick Shannon
This issue of the Integral Leadership Review is brought to you from Great Britain. Although the names Great Britain and the United Kingdom (UK) are used interchangeably, technically the term Great Britain refers to the island occupied by England, Scotland and Wales, but does not include Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. Britain’s position as an island on the edge of Europe and its close relations with the U.S.A. define it politically and set it apart …
Leading Comments / October 2011
“May your children live in interesting times!”
—Curse of Uncertain Origin
Another variant is “May you live in interesting times!”
In either case, the point is made. We do live in interesting times. And these are both wonderful and more than a little scary. I need to spell out the global evidence for this claim. Rather, I will just bring it home to Integral Leadership Review. Our interesting times includes recent successes with the Integral Leadership Collaborative Conferences, and …
Leading Comments / August 2011
Russ Volckmann
You have been receiving a great number of emails from us recently, a highly unusual situation. The Integral Leadership Collaborative Conference beginning August 15 with over 300 participants is a most unusual and international event. Unfortunately, if you have not registered by the time you are seeing this, then access to the content of over 40 keynotes, panels and roundtables is highly questionable at this point. I do hope we can make this content available in the future …
Leading Comments / June 2011
I want to encourage you to take a good look at the Notes from the Field section of Integral Leadership Review. The purpose of this section is to call attention to and report on the value added experienced by individuals pursuing their own and collective learning and development in many different contexts. You may find a report of an integrally informed development program in Nigeria, a report on a conference or workshop, or a report on …
Leading Comments / March 2011
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In recent times, thanks to individuals who believe that ILR is an academic journal, I have had the opportunity to hone my elevator speech about Integral Leadership Review. I respond by explaining that ILR is a bridging publication and that we attract subscribers and authors from a wide variety of domains, …
Leading Comments / January 2011
January 2011 Issue
Before turning this column over to the Guest Editor of this special issue on India I want to share some of my own relationship to that amazing subcontinent. When I was a senior in college (1960-61) I took a two semester seminar in political science, my major, that required a significant research paper in each semester. There were two things that I knew about India that intrigued me (and much of the rest of the Western world …
Leading Comments / June 2010
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