Integral Leadership Review

Summary Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton. The Knowing-Doing Gap. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. Pfeffer and Sutton studied what it is about businesses that make it so difficult for them to implement what they know. The gap is the product of a number of factors. For example, people act on the basis […]

“There are lots of things in life that are worth the pain,” he says. “Being a leader is one of them.” ~Ronald Heifetz, Fast Company

When coaching an individual leader in a business, explore her/his assumptions about the individual and collective aspects of leadership in their experience. Ask them to tell stories about each and identify what important learning there was. Some sample questions might be: What were your intentions? What did you do? What was the result? What does […]

In the last issue I wrote about our need to transcend and include the limiting model of heroic leadership. It isn’t that we have no reason to value heroic acts of leadership. They continue to be important to us. We need to recognize both the heroic and the collective. In the remarks that follow, I am concerned […]