Integral Leadership Review

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Five simultaneous conversations are essential to the art and discipline of leadership… The first courageous conversation is the conversation with the unknown future – what lies over the horizon…” The second conversation is the courageous conversation you’re not having with a present customer, a patient, a vendor, who all represent the future as it’s lapping […]

When working with an executive or other leader in generating alternatives and playing out outcomes from alternatives we are engaging in a scenario exploration process. As a coach it is important to be able to recognize elements of such an analysis that relates to different levels of development and to developmental dynamics. If you use […]

Q: What is the relationship between your being a chair in ethical management and your Integral Leadership program at H.E.C.? A: It’s pretty straightforward. If we’re talking about integral development, like Ken Wilber or Bill Tolbert and many other developmental theorists, we’re talking about ethics. The behaviors, thinking patterns and emotions of people are targeted for acting […]

Think about the methods we have for developing leaders: education, training, OJT, mentoring, coaching, assessment centers, focus on leader competencies, developing a leadership pipeline, etc. One that hasn’t received much attention is the use of scenarios. Training programs use simulations and experiential learning activities, usually focused on an organizational or behavioral issue of some sort: […]

Leadership, as has been preached in these pages for some time now, is about the individual and the context. It is about an emergence of individuals from context to demonstrate leadership. One of the things that I have not focused on very much is the traits or qualities individuals bring to these leader moments. I […]