Search Results for: self-deception

Feature Article: Integral Top Team Alignment

Feature Articles / March 2009

Pleuntje van MeerIt is possible to evolve top-teams for the twenty-first century, even in today’s turbulent and challenging times. Achieving high performance at the most senior executive level of company divisions and business units requires a team to engage in an alignment process that takes time, focus and personal commitment. The task is not an onerous one, though it does require a clear mindset and a sharpening of skills and capabilities that go beyond many executives’ previous individual business achievements.

We have …

Dialogue: The Horse, the Magpie, the Buffalo and the Hoop

Dialogue / August 2008

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While many will have their minds firmly fixed on the story of the butterfly that, by flapping her wings in the forests of Amazonia creates storms in New York, very few will pay attention to the real miracle, which is that of the irreversible transformation in chaos of the pupa to become the butterfly.

At de Lange 1999

—the only real way to develop strategy is to use a process where one goes …

Feature Article: The Nature of Transpersonal Leadership: Building Potentiating Relationships

Book Reviews / June 2008

The gift we hold within is for the others we meet without.

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Mark McCaslinThis much I know to be true, the easiest way to cripple a person for life is to make them blind to their greatest potentials. And regrettably, the easiest way to become this crippling force is to neglect your own emerging potential. Without an intention aimed at the full actualization of our own potential and the potentials of those we would lead leadership pursuits will always fall

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Leadership Emerging

Leadership Emerging / January 2008

Opposable Mind Roger Martin bookcoverRoger Martin. The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.

University of Toronto Dean of the Rotman School of Management Martin has provided us with an overview of the model and development approaches for working with MBA students in teaching them integrative thinking. In doing so, he draws on an extensive collection of interviews that he has conducted with leaders in business and other fields to provide stories of their use …

CODA

Coda / January 2008

Susanne Cook-Greuter, Introduction to Ego Development…a series of videos on stages of adult development, IntegralNaked,http://in.integralinstitute.org/live/view_cook-greuter.aspx

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There are seven segments of this presentation at an Integral Institute workshop.

The opportunity to download these very well presented introductions to her highly important work on development and its applications is well worth the price of admission for a one month membership in Integral Naked.

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The Arbinger Institute, Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box.

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Book Review: Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values

Book Reviews / January 2007

Kalman’s Kosmos

Kalman photoFred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values. Boulder, Colorado, US A: Sounds True, 2006.

I knew precious little about Fred Kofman’s work before reading his new book, Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values. But I was impressed by what I did know: he was a colleague of management guru Peter Senge at MIT and helped him bring the ideas of the ‘Learning Organisation’, systems thinking and so on to the attention …