Book Reviews / October 2011
Jeff Klein. Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living. Boulder CO: Sounds True, 2009.
Russ Volckmann
Not so long ago when I thought of what kind of training would best develop individuals for leader roles, I looked to people like Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner or institutions like The Center for Creative Leadership for examples that I could learn from, adapt, share with clients. Increasingly, as I have been trying to sort out the pieces …
Book Reviews / October 2011
It took a long time to decide on the awards this year. Well, we could have done it sooner, but we didn’t. Part of the challenge was choosing between two outstanding books. If you are interested in integral, interested in leading and leadership in organizations, interested in reading about these things, these two – yes, two (we couldn’t choose which one) – are must reads. Congratulations to the authors, Donna Ladkin and Mark Edwards.
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Book Reviews / August 2011
Angela Pfaffenberger, Paul Marko, and Allan Combs (Editors). The Postconventional Personality: Assessing, Researching, and Theorizing Higher Development. Albany, New York State University Press, 2011.
Glen Rogers
Religion is poetry that we believe in – Santayana
This edited book on the farthest reaches of adult holistic development includes a brief introduction and 13 diverse and separately authored chapters. These are of digestible length and comprise the 232 pages of
Book Reviews / August 2011
John Rowan
This is a brilliant book which would be of interest to Integral people for three reasons: although it does not have a concept of levels, it does range over all four quadrants of the AQAL model; it uses second-tier thinking throughout; and it is firmly research-based.
The first chapter takes us on to the international stage, and the concept …
Book Reviews / June 2011
Jan De Visch, The Vertical Dimension. Blueprint to Align Business and Talent Development (Connect & Transform Press, 2010) ISBN 978-94-9069-538-5. Available from http://www.connecttransform.be/
Nick Shannon
At first sight this is not a book about leaders or leadership. It is a book about organizational development setting out a theory of the thinking and processes that lead to organizational success. And, whilst not explicitly aimed at business, the focus is very much on organizations that intend to provide a …
Book Reviews / June 2011
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Book Reviews / March 2011
Michel Nguyen The
In his last book and essay La Voie (The Way, January 2011), Edgar Morin shows us the way, for the future of humanity (as suggested by the subtitle). He makes it clear that he is talking about the Way with a capital letter, as in French the words in titles do not have to be capitalized this clearly shows how ambitious …
Book Reviews / March 2011
Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones, Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?
What It Takes to Be an Authentic Leader
Ron Cacioppe
Many companies are managed not by leaders, but by role players and boring bureaucrats. But what does it take to be a real leader—one who is confident in who she is and what she stands for, and who truly inspires people to achieve extraordinary results? In their book: Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? Rob Goffee and …
Book Reviews / March 2011
Sharda S. Nandram and Margot Esther Borden, Editors. Spirituality and Business: Exploring Possibilities for a New Management Paradigm. Berlin: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Publishers, 2010
Brian Van der Horst
Writing about spirituality and business has always seemed to me about as easy as nailing Jello to a wall. However, the editor/authors of this book have done a noble academic job of collecting a wide variety of examples and approaches to facilitating and utilizing personal evolution in the workplace.
Dr. Sharda S.Nadram …
Book Reviews / March 2011
Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of Leadership
by Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja
(New York: HarperCollins), 2011.
Bruce Gibb
The authors purport to present a “brand new theory of leadership, grounded in evolutionary science” which they dub the “Evolutionary Theory of Leadership” or ELT. They accept what they call the textbook definition of a leader: “A leader is someone able to exert social influence on others to accomplish a common goal.”
In general Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of …