Monthly Archives: January 2014

1/23 – Integral Leadership Reading List

Notes from the Field / January-February 2014

Russ Volckmann

The following is the current list of resource material for the advanced PhD seminar in integral leadership that I am teaching at Saybrook University (online discussion/presentations) beginning the first week of February 2014, This list is growing and does not inlcude, for example, material from the last year of Integral Leadership Review.

If you would like to suggest additions to this list, email them to me: russ@integralleadershipreview.com

I will post sets of …

1/22 – Du Plessis, Sehume and Martin. (2013). The Concept and Application of Transdisciplinarity in Intellectual Discourse and Research

Book Reviews / January-February 2014

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Hester Du Plessis, Jeffery Sehume and Leonard Martin. (2013). The Concept and Application of Transdisciplinarity in Intellectual Discourse and Research. Johannesburg, South Africa: Real African Publishers.

Sue L.T. McGregor

Transdisciplinary In March 2011, the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) was launched in South Africa, www.mistra.org.za It is an independent research institute (a think tank) that takes a long-term view on the strategic challenges facing South Africa. In case you were wondering, Mapungubwe was a pre-colonial, ancient

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1/20 – Said Dawlabani, MEMEnomics

Book Reviews / January-February 2014

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cover Said E. Dawlabani. MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System. New York: Select Books, 2013.

Laura Frey Horn

In MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System Said Dawlabani presents a holistic approach to understanding the history and future of U.S. economics that goes well beyond money and finances. He embraces a whole systems philosophy that includes developing an understanding of history and economics as they align and integrate with complex human development theory. (This theory, based upon the …

1/20 –Education as Development – Integral Transformative Vision for Africa

Feature Articles / January-February 2014

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Oliver Ngodo

Introduction

Africa’s problems keep mounting, assuming greater complexity by day. Concerned individuals and groups seek solutions in their different areas of interest or specialization, thus being partial ab initio, with the result that their different perspectives are everything except holistic. Solutions proffered consequently differ greatly among scholars and practitioners on even the basic definition of what these problems are.

All around the continent, people look up to leadership for comfort, but this does …

1/20 – Nelson Mandela – A Tribute

Feature Articles / January-February 2014

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Chief Emeka Anyaoku

In the gallery of world statesmen of the twentieth century, Nelson Mandela occupies an exceptional position. His name will be forever linked with the struggle of the South African people to end apartheid, the coping stone of the racism and the injustices to which they had been subjected for so long. However, this is not the heart of the matter. What sets Mandela apart in world history is the charity with which he …

1/20 – What I Have Learned from Madiba

Feature Articles / January-February 2014

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A Distinction Between the Best Leader Versus the Great Leader

Yene Assegid

Many of us are familiar with Lao Tzu’s quote: “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” And yes, in ordinary situations, the best leader may well be the one that is barely visible on the stage. The best leader might be one that is …

1/20 – Nelson Mandela

Leadership Quote / January-February 2014

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“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”

– Nelson Mandela…

1/20 – Ambition and Leading

Leadership Coaching Tips / January-February 2014

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Russ Volckmann

Assessments are used in many ways in individual development, whether through direct feedback from others, questionnaires, etc. Each individual, each assessment, is based on a set of values that shape criteria. When someone identifies a set of criteria or offers learning from experience, these can be a good place to start in gaining insight into our own situation.

The following (edited) material was posted by Michael Lamport Commons on January 11, 2014. While the …

1/20 – The Integral Living Room, Boulder, Colorado, USA October 31 – November 3, 2013

Notes from the Field / January-February 2014

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Alia Aurami

Leadership on the Bleeding Edge of Humanity’s Evolution

All event photos courtesy Alyssa Morin, used by permission.[i]

Most challenges for Integrally-oriented leaders stem from working with people/situations primarily at First Tier consciousness. If you’re interested in the following entirely different kinds of leadership challenges, you would have loved the 2013 “Integral Living Room” event (and might love to be involved in the next one, May, 2014.)

Perhaps you’re interested in such challenges as:

What

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1/20 – The Program – The Development of Meta-Systemic Cognition

Notes from the Field / January-February 2014

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Mark Roddam

Like I am sure many other readers of the Integral Leadership Review, I have a deep appreciation of the need for humanity to take a giant leap in consciousness if we are to successfully tackle the collective challenges we face. Humanity is edging ever closer to crisis. The old ways of doing things simply won’t cut it if we are to successfully tackle challenges such as climate change, globalisation and a financial system …