Learner Papers / January 2013
Eric Reynolds
[This is a revised version of a paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a PhD seminar, Integral Leadership, offered at Saybrook University by Russ Volckmann in the Fall 2012. The assignment was to bring an integral lens to three articles on leadership that were not required reading for the course. – Ed.]
Leadership and the theoretical body of knowledge around it, like all things, is evolving. The days of …
Leadership Emerging / January 2013
Douglas Board. Choosing Leaders and Choosing to Lead: Science, Politics and Intuition in Executive Selection. Burlington, VT: Gower Publishing Company, 2012.
It is not often I pick up a book with a Foreword by a baroness, Baroness Prashar of Runnymede. This baroness earned her title by serving as the First Civil Service Commissioner in the UK and other public service. Her assessment is that Douglas Board brings some fresh perspectives, long overdue, in the world …
Leadership Emerging / January 2013
Steven Snyder. Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and Adversity. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012.
With some reservations this book is an excellent approach to developing individuals for leader roles. First, the Foreword by Bill George is worth reading. In it you can see more of this self-reflective individual’s development that has led to an illustrious career in business, in academia and as an author. And George points right …
Leadership Emerging / January 2013
Lina M. Echeverria. Idea Agent: Leadership That Liberates Creativity and Accelerates Innovation. New York: American Management Association, 2013.
I need to be up front about something before commenting on this book. It was recommended to me by two friends of mine who indicated the author was a friend of theirs. I did not anticipate that they would be highlighted in the Acknowledgements as inspiration and support for the book being written. Having said that, I …
Leadership Emerging / January 2013
Antonio Marturano, Editorial, Leadership, 2012 8: 205.
http://lea.sagepub.com/content/8/3/205.citation
Antonio Marturano, ILR Bureau Chief for Italy and guest editor of this special issue, was the Editor of the August 2012 issue of Leadership, one of the leading academic journals on the subject. The material in this journal provides more in depth treatments of subjects also found in this special issue. He states,
…Italy has had an amazing fabric of leaders and ideas on leadership even
Leading Comments / January 2013
Antonio Marturano
This ILR issue is dedicated to Italy. Very interestingly, Italy has had an amazing fabric of leaders and ideas on leadership since the Romans: Italy indeed did not only provide all kinds of leaders (from Machiavellian-amoralist leaders to saint and value-centred leaders) but also many Italian scholars have helped us to think about leadership. From Marc Aurelius, Machiavelli, Gramsci, to Agamben, today, Italian scholars have provided tools with which to understand the leadership phenomena. …
Book Reviews / January 2013
King, T. C., & Ferguson, S. A. (2011). Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline (Kindle ed.). New York: State University of New York Press.
Adeeba Deterville
The book is an important addition to the field of leadership as it may be the first of its kind to address the concept of leadership development through the lens of the African American mother-daughter relationship. Using the feminist concept of the motherline the book examines the cultural transmission of …
Feature Articles / January 2013
Adriano Pianesi
“The mind grows through exposure to reality.”
– W. Bion
I grew up and was educated in Rome, Italy. Here are a few flashbacks about my life as a learner in the Italian school system:
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- Elementary School, 1972: Maestra Arena would consider any question from the class as a personal insult and refuse to answer.
- 12th grade, 1977: Signor Pumo would simply not acknowledge our presence in the class as we walked in
Fresh Perspective / January 2013
Mark McCaslin
Vicki Noble is a radical feminist healer, author, independent scholar and wisdom teacher. Born in 1947 and raised in Iowa, she awakened to the Goddess and Women’s Spirituality on her arrival in Berkeley, California in 1976. Through a ‘shamanic healing crisis’, she opened psychically to the healing, art, yoga, and divination processes that led to the creation of the Motherpeace tarot. Since then she has written several books, including Shakti Woman (a handbook for …
Leadership Cartoon / January 2013
This cartoon was given to Integral Leadership Review by the cartoonist for this special issue on Italy. We are grateful for his generosity.
Italian Democratic Party (PD) Primary 2012 – Pierluigi Bersani, PD leader is “snatching” the role as Party candidate for the incoming National Political Elections from Matteo Renzi, emerging PD leader and Mayor of Florence. “Scipp” (reads “ship”) in Italian means indeed “snatching”, which is a very traditional sport among Italian politicians since Machiavelli.…