Category Archives: October 2008

Book Review: Evolving in the City A Review and Interview with Integral City Author Dr. Marilyn Hamilton

Book Reviews / October 2008

Marilyn Hamilton (2008). Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers.

About Integral City

Integral City describes the city as if it were a whole system, the human equivalent of the bee hive. It proposes an integral meta-framework to reframe cities as resilient, vibrant human habitats. In the context of climatic/geographic life conditions, it explores the intentions, behaviors, cultures and social systems of individuals and groups in the city. It integrates the …

Leadership Quote: Dee Hock

Leadership Quote / October 2008

Here is the very heart and soul of the matter of leadership: If you seek to lead, invest 50% of your time (attention) leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over youand 15% leading your peers – Use the remainder to induce those you “work for” to understand and practice the theory – If you don’t understand that you should be working for your mislabeled “subordinates,” then you know nothing of

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Feature Article: Power, Responsibility & Wisdom: Exploring the issues at the core of Ethical Decision-Making and Leadership

Feature Articles / October 2008

Introduction

The objective is simple: ‘Better decision-makin’. The only issue is that there are so many different views over what we mean by ‘better’. At the core of all decision-making is the need to balance Power with Responsibility, as the vehicle for resolving the ‘better’ question. This article explores why that is so difficult? It also argues that exploring the concept of Wisdom can provide invaluable insights into how to achieve the most effective balance between Power and Responsibility, which …

Leading Comments: This Issue

Leading Comments / October 2008

We are in the process of rethinking Integral Leadership Review and its related publications. Subscriptions to ILR will continue to be without charge in order to assure the widest dissemination of the ideas and experiences of our writers and our readers. While I am not prepared to offer details at this time, I want you to know that pretty much everything about ILR, its website, structure and functions are on the table. Format, the use of graphics (or not) and

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Notes From the Field: The Wisdom of Women: Notes from the Women’s Integral Practice Retreat

Notes from the Field / October 2008

There’s a tribe from Africa that makes a point of welcoming people. For instance, if one of them met you outside at a gathering, they would welcome you. If they met you inside the gathering again, even though you had only crossed paths moments before, they welcome you anew out of a belief that people need to be continuously welcomed again and again, that there are ways that we as human beings aren’t welcomed to each other, in our own

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Notes From the Field: Apex Perspectives: Leadership Applications of Big Mind

Notes from the Field / October 2008

The process of becoming a leader is much the same as the process of becoming an integrated human being. For the leader, as for any integrated person, life itself is the career. Discussing the process in terms of ‘leaders’ is merely a way of making it concrete. ~Warren Bennis

Gayle Young Understanding this quote means having a conceptualization of what an integrated human being means, and the Big Mind process with Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel gave me the clearest insight …

Dialogue: Integral Theory into Integral Action: Part 12

Dialogue / October 2008

In the previous episode we focussed on comparing the Obama and McCain candidacies for the American presidency as a way oif exploring the mediation lens. Mark suggested that a mediation lens would be helpful and offered a way of seeing the relationship between the vision and action domains. Russ shared an exploration of the differences on issues between the two campaigns. and closed the episode with an exploration of mediation and its many aspects. This is, apparently, the last episode …

Notes From the Field: Spiral Dynamics Bootcamp: A Learning Adventure with Rafael Nasser

Notes from the Field / October 2008

The First Exercise

Lesley Stoller You are either a howler, or a growler.

Put differently, in the course of satisfying your primal survival needs—getting food and shelter or fighting off predators—you might either howl or growl.

Put even differently, during the BEIGE stage of human emergence, when only the earliest manifestations of human consciousness and fundamental tools of language are available, your means of expression are limited to primal utterances—such as howling or growling.

On Saturday, September 13, 2008, thirty people in …