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Why Integral Leadership Review Is/Can Be Important Russ Volckmann, Editor Take a moment to show your support. Join Friends of Integral Leadership Review. http://www.integralleadershipreview.com/become-an-ilr-friend.php Take a moment with me to revisit why I am doing what I am doing, particularly bringing Integral Leadership Review to the world and welcoming the participation of so very many […]

“The message of heroic leadership is about the sterling character of the leader, not the substance of the issues that the public is called to decide. And the temptation of heroic leadership is the extension of power and the escaping of public accountability. Heroic leaders are one of democracy’s leviathans, and the large shadows they […]

The Magnetic Leader as Crucible – How to Create a Transformative Space without Scorching People by Zoë Routh Change and learning can be difficult and painful–hence the notion of “crucible” experiences: an event that was challenging or even harrowing acts as a transformational experience, much like a crucible provides a container for huge temperatures that initiate […]

Reprise: A Focus on 2nd Person in a 2nd Interview with Bill Torbert by Russ Volckmann I first interviewed Bill Torbert in 2002. http://www.integralleadershipreview.com/archives-2002/2002-08/2002-08-fresh-torbert.php In fact, he is the only person I have published in “Fresh Perspectives” twice in Integral Leadership Review. In part this is due to the respect with which I hold him […]

Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education The Path of Arizona State University by Sue McGregor and Russ Volckmann This is the second article in a five-part series about transdisciplinarity (TD) in higher education. In an attempt to profile universities on a journey towards transdisciplinarity, we are starting with Arizona State University (ASU), a major and growing American […]

Four Quadrant Coaching: A Conversation with Myles Downey by Debby Hallett I first came across Myles Downey while I was in coach training, and someone recommended his book, Effective Coaching, Lessons from the Coach’s Coach, as one of the best they had read. Myles often refers to a coachee as a “player,” as in “you […]

Frame Breaking Leadership by Keith Merron The concept of a paradigm is no longer new in organizational parlance. It is, in fact, quite commonplace to talk about paradigms and the importance of shifting paradigms in shaping an organization and keeping it fresh and alive. However, talking about and acting are two different things. Many leaders […]

Integrally-informed Management Development: the Art of the Gentle Nudge by Pierre A. Gauthier Introduction An ongoing challenge for Integral Theorists remains the practical application of Integral Theory in the world around them. The ideas and models they produce and discuss amongst themselves do occasionally translate into integrally-informed policies, programs and real-life development, but often only […]

The Story of Jill– How an Individual Leader Developed into a “Level 5” Leader by Maureen Metcalf & Dena Paluck We continue to see Jim Collins book Good to Great at the top of the business best seller list. This book talks about the importance of “Level 5 Leadership” in organizational transformation from good to […]

Q&A Session with Ken Wilber In his loft in Denver, March 4th, 2010 Questions created among the Spanish Integral Community Interview Transcribed by Raquel Torrent, President of Honor of the Spanish Integral Association Raquel: How do you feel Ken? Talk to us about your health. Ken: Well, you know I have a chronic fatigue syndrome. […]

Integral Business: How to Make a Difference and Make Money While Doing What You Love by Brian Whetten Introduction In working with hundreds of conscious businesses over the past five years, we noticed a curious pattern. The more conscious the business leaders were, and the more committed the organization was to making a difference in […]

How Is Our Leadership Serving the Highest Vision of Our Planet? by Mark Gilbert The subject of this article is to review our vision for the future and to see if our actions are in alignment with that vision. This topic has been covered many times and in many ways, but we are going to […]

Integral For The Masses Moving from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm An Integral Leader’s Story Keith Bellamy The wires of the Internet have been running extremely hot the past few days as Integralistas from all corners of the globe have been discussing, with extreme passion, the difference between theory and meta-theory and the rights […]

International Leadership Association Webinar May 26, 2010 Leadership Development Grady McGonagill and Tina Doerffer by Russ Volckmann Consultant McGonagill and Doerffer of the Bertelsmann Foundation presented their report of a study they did of leadership development in the United States. Their presentation was one of the best hours I have spent online for some time. […]

The Gathering by Marc Quinn On March 27th, 2010, a group of 25 people (all but 2 being men) gathered in South London to discuss the state of men in the UK, and what could be done to bring more purpose, power and meaning to their lives. Man Collective was started last November when Alex […]

Reflections on Adult Development through the SRAD Symposium by Ulas Kaplan The 25th Annual Symposium of the Society for Research in Adult Development (SRAD) took place in Philadelphia on March 9 and 10, as a preconference for the Society for Research in Adolescence Biennial Meeting. Driving from Virginia to Philadelphia, I was listening to an […]

Breaking the Investment Barriers for “Plan B” May 12th, 2010 on board the SS Rotterdam by Emil Möller “Plan B is a ‘plan of hope’ because the necessary technology, economic instruments and financial resources are all available -for competing global warming, demography, poverty and restoring ecosystems. The encouraging is that if you manage to do […]

Evolutionary Worldview Rising by George Pór Collective Emergence “I don’t want followers, I want partners” is a rare statement from any spiritual teacher. Yet, those were the exact words I heard Andrew Cohen speaking in his seminar on March 27, in London. The upper floor in the EnlightenNext Centre in Islington was packed with his […]

Asia Business Forum Integral Perspective–The State of Awareness in Southeast Asia by Oliver Ngodo It was a momentous event. From March 22-25, the Asia Business Forum (ABF) meticulously packaged an International Conference on “Branding and Marketing Asia Higher Education” for countries in the South East Asia sub-region. The brainstorming sessions took place at the cozy […]

Review of Wendy Palmer’s Conscious Embodiment Seminar by Anouk Brack “It is not that I stay balanced all the time, I just recover so fast, nobody notices the imbalance.” –paraphrasing O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the martial art Aikido I highly recommend Wendy Palmer’s teaching of embodied leadership through conscious embodiment practices that she […]

The Cosmos and Consciousness Group: Can Facebook Be Integral? by Oliver Robinson When the history of the Internet is written at the end of this century, March 2010 will be remembered as a pivotal moment in its very early years. It was in this month that Facebook overtook Google as the most popular website in […]

Five days in the Incubator, March 2010 by Gary Hawke In 2009 at the Integral Leadership in Action conference, I was a panel member on the pre-conference discussion “The Frothy Edge of Integral Leadership”. The consensus of the panel was that we have made the 50,000-foot altitude now we need to begin the work of […]

NeuroLeadership Summit Los Angeles,CA, USA from 27th-29th October 2009 by Galina Knopman I eagerly downloaded the conference schedule, reading the topics and speakers’ bios, and checking off which talks I wanted to attend. I checked my stack of books beside my bed and re-prioritized what to read in preparation for the conference. I got my […]

11th Annual SDi Confab Grapevine, Texas by Dr. Don Beck This will be the first report on the 11th Annual Confab event held at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Grapevine. Texas. The theme this year dealt with the “Bio” in the Gravesian “Bio-Psycho-Social” framework, a focus that puts Spiral Dynamics at the forefront of any […]

John Marshall Roberts. Igniting Inspiration: A Persuasion Manual for Visionaries. Self-published, 2008. First, I am surprised that this book has been out so long and only recently showing up on my radar screen. Why? Because I think it is an important book, particularly for those who wish to go beyond theory and model into the […]

Frederick Darbellay, Moira Cockell, Jerome Billotte, Francis Waldvogel, Editors.A Vision of Transdisciplinarity: LayingFoundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue. Laussanne, Switzerland: EPFL Press, 2008. This book deserves a far more in depth review that I will be able to offer at this time. It represents something that is very much at the heart of transdisciplinarity: given […]

Elizabeth Doty. The Compromise Trap: How to Thrive at Work Without Selling Your Soul. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2009. The Foreword is written by Art Kleiner, editor of the online publication Strategry+Business. He notes that business ethics is a thorny issue. He values this book because of “the questions it raises about organizational ethics and its […]

Linda Tarr-Whelan. Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2009. The premise behind this book is that there is a 30% solution to gender imbalance in leadership of businesses and government. By filling the chairs at the tables of decision making the character of […]

Book Review The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin Bruce L. Gibb Jeremy Rifkin. The Empathic Civilization. New York: Penguin, 2009. If you are a spiralcrat, you are going to love Jeremy Rifkin’s book, a wonderful compilation of historical, psychological, and sociological stories chronicling the human journey through the vMemes of the Spiral. One might conclude […]

Review Michael Horace Barnes, Stages of Thought Science and Religion through History As Seen through the Lens of Stage by Lucas Alexander Haley Commons-Miller Michael Horace Barnes. Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. In Stages of Thought, Michael Horace Barnes explains how societies have evolved […]

Mark G. Edwards. Organisational Transformation for Sustainability: An Integral Metatheory. New York: Routledge, 2010. by Russ Volckmann About The Book Bill Torbert, interviewed in this issue of Integral Leadership Review, wrote the foreword. There he wrote, “Once every generation or so, a field-defining scholarly statement appears. Mark Edwards’s metatheory for organizational transformation is such a […]

Do you have an event or activity that you would like the readers of Integral Leadership Review to learn about? If you are a not for profit organization, send your announcement far enough in advance to make it into an issue that is timely for your event or activity. Announcing the 2nd International Worldly Leadership […]

Freddie Northern 3000th Subscriber to Integral Leadership Review We don’t know much about Freddie (other than his amazing good taste in reading material), but here he is, Freddie Northern, the 3000th subscriber to Integral Leadership Review. Thank you, Freddie! Our way of saying thanks was to send him this special edition Integral Leadership Review mug. […]

PhilosopherNotes Brian Johnson, founder of Zaadz, the popular integrally informed social networking site (which he later sold to Gaia and they have shut it down) went to Bali and developed an online series, PhilosopherNotes (http://www.philosophersnotes.com/). Now those notes are available in print and audio files. Here is the way this material is presented: Brian Johnson’s […]

Which South Africa in 2010: A Successful Emerging Economy or an Increasingly Polarized Failing Society? by Alan Tonkin In considering the current situation in South Africa, two widely differing scenario’s can be drawn. The first is a successful emerging economy with major infrastructure expenditure for the forthcoming 2010 Soccer World Cup in June/July, 2010. The […]

The Dialogical Journey Towards a Post-Conventional Resolution of Leadership Praxis by David Holzmer Union Institute and University Despite the ongoing growth and development of leadership theory–an evolution marked by increasingly nuanced and sophisticated conceptions of leadership practice–there exists, within the deep foundations of leadership’s unfolding narrative, a disquieting tension. It is an ideological divide, arising […]