December 2004
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Leading Comments
Leading Comments
Russ Volckmann
I am grateful to the more than 925 subscribers to Integral Leadership Review. Your support means that we can move closer to a way of viewing and being in the world that is integrative, generative and supportive of our evolving integrity – learning to align our theory and our action, our values and assumptions with achieving […]
Leadership Quote
Leadership Quote
Editor
“…Last winter BusinessWeek ran a cover story, ‘Waking Up from the American Dream,’ that detailed how most Americans have a small and diminishing chance of moving up in socioeconomic class. “Evidently, Americans accept this arrangement – at any rate they keep returning to office the politicians whose policies reinforce the divisions between the haves and have-nots. But […]
Leadership Coaching Tips
Leadership Coaching Tip
Russ Volckmann
When coaching executives, look for openings to explore the relationship between interior-individual lines of development (intellectual, emotional, etc.) and organizational systems (vision and strategy, communications, etc.) An example of such an exploration would follow from the question, “What’s the link between your energy (belief, focus, etc.) and current organizational strategy?” Another might be, “What organizational […]
Fresh Perspective
A Fresh Perspective: Leadership as an Organizational Trait An Interview with James O’Toole
Russ Volckmann
Q: One thing from your writing is the idea that the focus on the heroic notion of leadership is destructive. Would you care to comment on that? A: I don’t use the word ‘heroic,’ but I think it is dangerous to focus on leadership as an individual trait. It is also based on the fiction that in […]
Feature Articles
Feature Article: Scenarios and Lines: Advancing Leadership Development
Russ Volckmann
In the last two issues of Integral Leadership Review I have been writing about the use of scenarios and leadership development. Here I will develop this idea further with particular attention to the idea of lines of development. I will also link this exploration to the interview with James O’Toole in this issue of  Integral Leadership Review. […]
Integral for the Masses
Integral For the Masses: Avoiding the Elitist Trap
Keith Bellamy
I am making the assumption that you are reading this on the screen of your computer.  If you happen to be one of those individuals who prints copies of this newsletter and reads at a time and place that feels more convenient than on your desktop, laptop or any other preferred device, the following is […]
Announcements
Announcements
Russ Volckmann
Adizes Graduate School is offering a three-day Adizes BTP(Breakthorough to Prime)-March 3-5, 2005-seminar and a six-day Spiral Dynamics seminar-March 7-12, 2005 – both live in Santa Barbara, California. http://www.adizes.com/Insights16/04.htm Additional 2005 Spiral Dynamics Training and Public Events Schedule All SDi workshops and other learning events are presented by Dr. Don Beck, assisted by close colleagues in […]
Coda
CODA: Business Simulations
Russ Volckmann
Here is an example of the use of simulations in business as a learning device. It suggests to me that this is an important approach to development that relates directly to an integral perspective. The source of this information is: Reworking Intuition: Business simulations spark rapid workplace renovations Bruce Bower www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041023/bob8.asp Peter Senge is reported to […]