March 2010
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Leadership Cartoon
Leadership Cartoon
Mark Hill
Mark Hill l am a cartoonist whose cartoons have been published in over 100 magazines and newspapers, including Time Magazine, The Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. My specialty is cartoons and humorous illustration for advertising, business and publishing. Fortune 500 clients with national advertising campaigns are among my repeat customers…as well as start-up […]
Leading Comments
Leadership Comments
Russ Volckmann
Russ Volckmann, Editor Thanks and Here’s More! NOTE: Send your nominations for the book or article that is the best you read in 2009. Please do so by April 15. We will announce the award in the June 2010 issue of Integral Leadership Review. russ@integralleadershipreview.com I would like to thank all of you who responded […]
Leadership Quote
Leadership Quote
Russ Volckmann
“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” ~ William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
Leadership Coaching Tips
Leadership Coaching Tip
Lain Kahlstrom
“Mindful Recycling” by Lain Kahlstrom Have you ever noticed yourself becoming fond of a particular idea or practice or methodology, and applying it to virtually all of your clients? I have. I’ve gone on these little ‘jags’ where, miraculously, all of my clients needed to receive the same magic elixir from me. I poured it […]
Fresh Perspective
Fresh Perspective
Russ Volckmann
Appreciating Integral: An Interview with Dana Carman Russ Volckmann Since 1984 Dana Carman has coached and consulted to visionary leaders and organizations spanning five continents across multiple sectors of society. His clients have demonstrated a commitment to transform themselves and their organizations, as well as the industries and regions in which their organizations are embedded. […]
Feature Articles
Article
Robert Wayne Johnston, PhD
Five Spiraling Cycles of Transformational Learning A Systems Map for Integral Self-Managers/Leaders by Robert Wayne Johnston As you probably know much has been written in various and sundry publications about the persistent paucity of effective leaders. My management consulting and business school teaching experience over several decades tells me much of the cause lies in […]
Article/Interview
Jordan MacLeod
How Money Changes the World An Interview with Author and Integral Economist by Jordan MacLeod ILR: Tell us about your process for writing New Currency. JM: Well, it’s been a work in progress for a few years, but it really wasn’t until the onset of the financial crisis and other geopolitical factors that really provided […]
Article
Sue L.T. McGregor & Russ Volckmann
Making the Transdisciplinary University a Reality by Sue L.T. McGregor and Russ Volckmann The purpose of this article is to introduce a new series for Integral Leadership Review. One of the many streams of thought that we have been featuring here is transdisciplinary. See the articles by Sue McGregor (2009a) and another by Predrag Cicovaki […]
Article
Josina van den Acker
Higher Education and Bad Practice by José van den Akker Abstract Universities. And What about Miscommunication and Accountability? Universities usually control context and supply the dominant logic. A problem lies in remaining unaware of hidden programmed or indoctrinated thinking that produces predetermined values. Usually accompanied by an emotional impulse to correct or amend, it reinforces […]
Article
Dorothea F. Zimmer
Some Questions About Europe by Dorothea F. Zimmer Thinking about how best to express the multitude of my thoughts on the topic of the future of Europe in a short article, I frequently step outside into the sunshine to pick the old leaves and blossoms from my plants on the terrace. As often, I am […]
Article
Raghu Ananthanarayanan & K.S. Narendran
Organization Identity Profiles –Old and New Economy Indian Organization Profiles Through the Graves – SD Lens by Raghu Ananthanarayanan and K.S. Narendran Introduction: The authors had the opportunity to work with tools based on Clare Graves Levels of Existence Framework developed by Ashok Malhotra, an organization consultant based now out of Bengaluru (Bangalore), India. The […]
Integral for the Masses
Integral For the Masses
Keith Bellamy
The Secret to Transform the Next 500 Years by Keith Bellamy Imagine, if you can, that you are a fly on the wall of a meeting that was taking place in the city of Aachen in 1439. In this equivalent of the mid 20th Century “smoke filled room” (remember Sir Walter Raleigh hasn’t brought tobacco […]
Notes from the Field
Notes from the Field
Graham Mummery
Battle For the Economy Institute of Ideas Seminar 16 May 2009, Goodenough College, London by Graham Mummery In the Great Hall of Goodenough College, London, its founder looks down on the proceedings. I am familiar with his name from induction courses during my, now defunct, banking career. He was Barclays Bank’s chairman in the 1920’s. […]
Notes from the Field
James Blacker
The Purpose of The Model of Personal Development and Global Change by James Blacker This article relates to The Papillon Human Potential Model of Personal Development and Global Change, a teaching presentation that we present from the homepage of our multi-website Integral Wisdom Movement, Whole Life Whole World (.com). For information, Papillon Human Potential morphed […]
Notes from the Field
Lynne Feldman & Joanne Rubin
Terry Patten & Deborah Boyar at One Spirit Learning Alliance by Lynne Feldman and Joanne Rubin While a blizzard raged to our south, it was cold and clear outside in New York City. Inside the airy room at One Spirit Learning Alliance about 40 people had gathered to welcome Terry and Deborah present on Embodied […]
Notes from the Field
Jordan Schachter
Karma and the Quadrants: Reflections on a Presentation to iNYC by Jordan Schachter I have been attempting to share for this publication a summary of my PowerPoint presentation. The presentation is designed to move Integral people beyond Yellow to Turquoise. The challenge is that Yellow is about rational. My re-telling of Turquoise is post-rational. My […]
Notes from the Field
Gary Hawke
Five days in the Incubator: Integral Boulder 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 […]
Leadership Emerging
Leadership Emerging
Russ Volckmann
The Arbinger Institute. Leadership and Self-Deception. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler 2010. Self-deception shapes our experiences of life. This book seeks to determine the extent and implications of how it blinds us to seeing the true causes of our problems. The work of the Institute in teaching people about self-deception and how to address it is that […]
Book Reviews
Review
John M. Bunzl
Michael Stron’s Be the Solution – How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems by John Bunzl As the title suggests, Be the Solution argues that our planetary crisis can be solved through the flowering of responsible entrepreneurship along with a stakeholder approach to business known as Conscious Capitalism. “Focused entirely on […]
Reveiw
Russ Volckmann
Raul Quinones Rosado Consciousness-in-Action: Toward an Integral Psychology of Liberation & Transformation Caguas, Puerto Rico: Ile Publications, 2007 by Russ Volckmann Have you ever been to an integral event? Workshops near Boulder, Colorado? Or ILP sessions in San Francisco or New York? Or Integral Leadership in Action in Texas? Or the Integral Theory Conference in […]
Announcements
Announcements
Russ Volckmann
Integral Review Special Issue on Integral Politics, edited by Sara Ross Available Now: http://integral-review.org/current_issue/politics-issue_index.asp   Meaning Conference 2010 The International Network on Personal Meaning (INPM) is pleased to announce the 6th Biennial International Meaning Conference to be held August 5-8, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. The main conference theme this year is: Creating a psychologically healthy […]
Coda
CODA: Messing with Problems
Russ Volckmann
Christopher Meyer and Julia Kirby in Harvard Business Review; Ian I. Mitroff and Abraham Silvers, Dirty Rotten Strategies Are the times really changing or is it same ‘ole, same ole…’? Is there hope for progress in confronting the challenges we face in the world or have the French had it right all along (as I […]
Global Values Update
Global Values Update
Alan Tonkin
Why Western Democracy Is Not a Global Notion: Required a Values Based System of Governance by Alan Tonkin Introduction The concept of “Western style democracy” is not a globally accepted notion as we see every day on the 24 hour international news channels as well as in the world’s press. This is because different societies […]