May 2004
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Leading Comments
Leading Comments
Russ Volckmann
I am grateful to the more than 820 subscribers to Integral Leadership Review. Your continuing support means that we can move closer to a way of viewing and being in the world that is integrative, generative and supportive of our evolving integrity––learning to align our theory and our action, our values and assumptions with achieving what is important […]
Leadership Quote
Leadership Quote
Editor
Leaders are not born ~ they are self-created. Leadership is not a heavy, difficult and isolating experience ~ it is rich with the joy of collaborating with others to create the newest new. Leadership does not mean you’ll be the first to be judged and persecuted when the results come in ~ it means you lead the wave […]
Leadership Coaching Tips
Leadership Coaching Tip: Being in the Tsunami
Russ Volckmann
The sources of business tsunamis are manifold. Just in the last few days I have had executive clients bring their tsunami’s to our coaching conversations. One example is an individual who is purchasing an entertainment company that includes a radio station. The financing for this effort must be available within a two-business-day window following an […]
Fresh Perspective
A Fresh Perspective: Another Phoenix Rising Excerpt from a Conversation with Sara Ross
Russ Volckmann
This interview with Sara Ross took place about a year ago. At the time she was engaged in an exchange with Dr. Don Beck on the subject of critical inquiry in the integral community. This is her abstract of a paper she offered to the Integral Leadership and organization development listserve. “The purpose of this conversational ‘letter’ […]
Feature Articles
Feature Article: Integral Leadership: The Case of Mother Teresa
Thierry C. Pauchant and Pierre-Alain Giffard
The reality of Integral Leadership has been exemplified by leaders such as Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson or Mohandas Gandhi. Mother Teresa is another example on which this article is based. These leaders are perceived today not only as some of the most ethical of the 20 th […]
Feature Article: The Tsunami of Integral Leadership Development
Russ Volckmann
Have you ever had a Tsunami? No, I don’t mean: “A tsunami (pronounced tsoo-nah-mee) is a wave train, or series of waves, generated in a body of water by an impulsive disturbance that vertically displaces the water column. Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, explosions, and even the impact of cosmic bodies, such as meteorites, can generate tsunamis. Tsunamis […]
Book Reviews
Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership
Russ Volckmann
Offers a powerful method that leaders in organizations of all types can use to increase the timeliness and effectiveness of their actions. Provides numerous real-world examples of action inquiry in action Includes exercises individuals and organizations can use to begin practicing action inquiry “A book for managers and students of management who are serious about […]
Announcements
Announcements
Russ Volckmann
Integral Organizational Leadership Here is the workshop many of you may have been waiting for. Here is Integral Leadership as applied to organizational life in our times. The faculty is a solid in-crowd from the Integral Institute and all of them are active in applying integral concepts in consulting, training, coaching, and/or executive education. If […]
Coda
Coda
Russ Volckmann
The 100 book project on Integral Leadership A Call for Contribution Thierry C. Pauchant www.leadergraphies.com Abraham Lincoln defined leadership as a growth process – a course of development and maturation – which encourages people to act from “the better angels of their nature”. Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, […]