July 2020 / Leadership Quote
| On leadership: “To me, leadership is not about necessarily being the loudest in the room, but instead being the bridge, or the thing that is missing in the discussion and trying to build a consensus from there.” On corona virus: “The worst case scenario is simply intolerable. It would represent the greatest loss of New Zealander’s lives in our country’s history. I will not take that chance. The government will do all it can to protect you. None |
July 2020 / Leading Comments
Dear readers,
Many thanks for tuning in to the July 2020 issue of ILR. I daresay, we have a great issue to share. The overall theme of this issue is Creativity, Consciousness and Leadership: Coronavirus and Beyond. Most of the articles in this issue address, either directly or indirectly, the following from our Call for Papers.
…“How do we ‘do leadership’ in a pandemic? How is humanity to adapt to this new post-normal, VUCA, wicked, and
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Sue L. T. McGregor
Introduction
Sue L. T. McGregorTransdisciplinarity (TD) has evolved over the last 40 years as a way to grapple with the complex, wicked problems facing humanity (McGregor, 2015; Nicolescu, 2014). Examples include health inequality, climate change, unsustainability, loss of diversity, poverty, uneven development, and unequal income and wealth distribution. Trans takes us beyond multi (more than one) and inter (between, among) disciplinarity, which are confined to university academic disciplines. Trans means …
July 2020 / Cover
July 2020 / Notes from the Field
Tom Habib
Tom HabibOur need to share our experiences at IEC 2020 threatened to relegate us to a Tower of Babel. The energy swirled among the members of San Diego Integral who attended the conference. Our intent was to share a single presentation that changed us. We invited fellow Integralists form all over the globe. Jesse Greene was up at dawn from Australia, Lailac Al-Taie found stores of energy at midnight from London, Santiago Jimenez’s (Columbia) nearby …
July 2020 / Leadership Coaching Tips
Anouk Brak
Anouk BrackHello! My name is Anouk Brack and I’m an expert in leadership development. We know about skills development in leadership, project management skills and conversation skills and all kinds of soft skills that are important. But skill is only one of the three dimensions of leadership development. There are two more dimensions that are very present, but often people don’t know about or are ignored; these are stage and state. So we …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Dena Michele Rosko
Dena Michele RoskoThe power lines zapped overhead in the late September sky as I crossed the open field, past the new and empty play toy, and around the newly painted white building with tall and lean windows and vacant eyes. On that warm late summer day, I had finished photographing the 10th anniversary of September 11 at the local firehouse. In a pre-pandemia memory as a child, I stood inside the church …
July 2020 / Notes from the Field
Eugene Pustoshkin
This essay was initially written for the Integral European Conference 2020 newsletter and blog in March 2020—it was published there in a significantly abbreviated form. The current version of the text was expanded and updated in June 2020.
Eugene PustoshkinThere are a few streams of the Integral movement’s emergence and growth in Russia. In this survey by Integral I refer to various developments around Ken Wilber’s AQAL Integral Theory & Practice as …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Eugene PustoshkinThis year has proven to be challenging, indeed! It is full of sociocultural, medical, economical, and psychological turmoil for many people across the world. Large-scale events erupted and interrupted continuities of our everyday existence. 2020 can be called The Year When the Earth Stood Still—and Discontinuity and Discord prevailed. Multidimensional non-linear processes look like thousands of runaway trains—running in every possible direction (including mutual collisions and …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Michael Morrow-Fox, Maureen Metcalf
Michael Morrow-Fox
Maureen Metcalf
As the COVID-19 Pandemic turned businesses worldwide upside down, business consultants were flooded with executive requests for help. Many business leaders were dumbfounded to find themselves on daily video calls witnessing staff reactions void of data and filled with anecdotal concerns. Normally competent unit leaders became paralyzed in the face of changes in business direction. With staff using metaphorical ‘lead …
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