Integral Leadership Review

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“Whenever we think in terms of ‘leadership,’ we create a dichotomy: (1) leaders, a select and privileged few, and (2) followers, the vast majority. There follows the implicit judgment that leaders are some how superior to followers. So you get secrecy, distrust, overindulgence, and the inevitable sacrifice of those below for the benefit of those […]

Watch out for SHAMs It has become pretty clear that self-help programs do not, in themselves, work. Evidence to the contrary is anecdotal, as far as I can discover. Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic, recently published a short article in Scientific American debunking self-help from fire walking to Tony Robbins. “Do these programs work? No one […]

Russ: Welcome, Bill and Steve. I would like to congratulate you because in October you will have the first integrally informed leadership book to be published by a major publisher in the world. Is that your understanding, too? Bill: What about Bill Torbert’s Action Inquiry? Russ: Certainly Action Inquiry includes materials highly relevant to leadership, but I don’t […]

The following is an amalgam of two email messages from Dr. Don Beck. Thanks, Russ. Looking forward to Elza’s article. This is one talented, bright, and courageous woman. Amazing that What is Enlightenment? keeps looking for “Integral Women” when there are many right in front of their noses, especially those like Elza. It is one thing to […]

Abou Nidal, our East Jerusalem Arab driver, is a big sturdy man who promised to take us anywhere in the Palestinian Territories. “These are our people. Safety is not an issue,” he proudly said. Well, not quite… On May 20th Dr. Don Beck, a geopolitical consultant and co-founder of Spiral Dynamics integral, and I finished a […]

“There will be twenty seven of us seated around a long U-shaped table. One of the walls consists of a series of large square glass windows overlooking the silky blue Mediterranean rolling onto the sandy shore.” I was describing to Don Beck the room where the first-ever three-day Spiral Dynamics Level 1 training in Israel […]

It has been almost ten years since Chris Newham, Prasad Kaipa and I had our first conversations about integral theory and Integral Leadership. Influenced by Howard Gardner’s work on multiple intelligences and others’ work on emotional intelligence we turned to Ken Wilber’s A Brief History of Everything, No Boundary and Sex, Ecology and Spirituality for concepts and models that would […]

Protecting the Integral Crown Jewels – a leadership responsibility for those pursuing an Integral path? “Isn’t life a bitch?” the tall bald-headed one from Boulder, Colorado responded to a question that I put to him when he was visiting with a group of us from the New York Integral Community a few weeks back. Little […]

Mark Edwards: At it Again…and Again,,, and Again… “On Being Critical” and Parallel Theories of an AQAL Approach to Relationality: Three Conversations with Ken Wilber The last couple of months have seen further evidence of the value that Mark Edwards brings to integral communities and the development of integral theory. To his credit Ken Wilber […]

If you or your organization will be holding an event of interest to the readers of this eJournal, please submit your information toruss@integraleadershipreview.com. Information should be submitted sufficiently in advance to meet our publication dates. ^––––––– ^ Integral Review Volume 2, 2006 has just published. Table of Contents Editorial Another Step: The Evolution of Integral […]

CODA, Resilience, Leadership and Coaching Mike Jay, CPR for the Soul: Creating Personal Resilience by Design. Leadership University Press, 2006. It is probably going to become increasingly difficult to keep up with the literature based at least in part on integral theory, even when we are just concerned with leadership and related topics. Mike Jay’s latest is […]