Student Paper

Emerging Scholars / January 2010

The Nonlinearity of Cultural Tradition:
Baron Carl von Clausewitz, the First Vector of the On War Fractal X
by Jeannie Carlisle Volckmann

Jeannie Carlisle Volckmann Few would disagree that On War by Barron Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), is the most influential book ever written on military philosophy in the Western world. Its popularity has not waned since the nineteenth century, the proof of which is On War remains on the US Army Chief of Staff’s professional reading list to this day. (1) Clausewitz …

CODA

Coda / January 2010

Reflections on Power, Love, Don Beck and Rugby in South Africa

powr and love cover Adam Kahane. Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2010.

Hot off the presses! An impressive new book by consultant Adam Kahane on the relationship between power and love in change processes! This is an important topic for a number of reasons. First of all, I have experienced in myself and in the language and practices of other consultants (particularly organization development) …

Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field / January 2010

The Renaissance2: Great Shift Gathering And
A Political Op-Ed Piece Too Good Not to Publish (with apologies to Terry for not asking permission—Russ)
by Terry Patten

terry patten On October 22th to 26th, 2009 over 70 participants from 20 countries and 4 continents gathered for the Renaissance2 “Great Shift Gathering: Catalyzing the Second Renaissance” at Chateau La Tour Apollinaire in Perpignan, France.

Renaissance2’s intention is to catalyze a meshwork, a “network of cooperative networks”. At this inaugural meeting, the Worldshift Alliance was …

Global Values Update

Global Values Update / June 2009

The South African Elections 2009: A Values Perspective

alan tonkin An Introduction: In analysing the recent national and provincial election in South Africa it is intended to use the “values prism” to evaluate the results. Commentators from a wide variety of viewpoints have analysed the results with the one major missing element being that of values and worldviews.

Dr. Don Beck of the Centre for Human Emergence, who has visited South Africa over sixty times since the early 1980’s and worked with …

Global Values Update: Developing a Sustainable Democracy in South Africa? How Understanding Different Values Can Shape Democracy

Global Values Update / October 2008

The recalling of Thabo Mbeki the President of South Africa by the ANC National Executive marks a possible key turning point in the development of a flourishing democracy in South Africa. Although Mbeki, who was educated in the UK, has been seen as a supporter of policies supporting the development of a strong economy he has also been strongly criticised for his views on AIDS as well as his “quiet diplomacy” in Zimbabwe. He was also seen as aloof and

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Notes from the Field: Changing Global Values in the 21st Century

Notes from the Field / November 2007

In looking forward into the 21st Century there is no doubt that changing values on issues such as the environment and global warming, the issue of providing clean energy and global terrorism are providing very different responses around the globe.

In the developed OECD countries there is a rapidly emerging awareness of the urgency to provide integrated solutions to these issues. However, in the developing world, including China and India, the thrust is on economic growth and providing jobs for …

CODA

Coda / January 2007

Leadership and the Integral Leadership Review: Reflections on Kouzes and Posner, A Leader’s Legacy and a Presentation by Prasad Kaipa, “Leadership and the Being-Doing Gap”

Please indulge me. I’m going to get a little personal here.

I have been offering summaries of books and articles for several years in ILR. For the most part I have tried to reserve CODA for publications that inform an integral (transdisciplinary, developmental) approach to leadership. I will reserve that type of summary for Sue …

Feature Article: Developing Leadership Capacity: Searching for the Integral

Feature Articles / March 2006

Leadership involves inspiring people and organizations to develop the capacity to create the futures they desire. This often means leaders are called upon to stimulate significant changes in human systems, which invariably require changes in individual behaviors. For such changes to be sustainable, individuals must examine the meaning that gives rise to their behaviors and the leaders must engage with those meanings inside themselves.

Dozens of scholars and commentators have attempted to define what really lies at the heart of …

The Nonlinearity of Cultural Tradition: Baron Carl von Clausewitz, the First Vector of the On War Fractal X by Jeannie Carlisle Volckmann