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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 […]

“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” ~ William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

“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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]