Excerpts from the Latest Issue
12/21 — Notes Towards an “Integral” Cosmopolitanism
Jeremy D Johnson I found myself struggling to find the appropriate leading note for this discussion. History seems to have irrupted this year, reminding us that, after all, things are still happening…
12/21 — Reasons and Methods in Dynamic Tension – Parsons School of Design at the UNESCO Futures Literacy Summit
Lisa Norton “2020 brought an unexpected opportunity: a powerful challenge to entrenched ways of thinking about the future. The pandemic shock, which has touched every single one of us in…
12/21 — Why and How to Lead with Confident Vulnerability
I’ve been compelled to share these principles across the world, most recently in 30+ events for young entrepreneurs and major corporations in Morocco and Africa, over the span of nearly 3 years.
12/21 — Unraveling the Gender Knot: Transformative Leadership at the ILA
The Thrive Paradox framework is a pathway for understanding the complex intersectionality of gender equity and acts as a powerful tool for creating fundamental shifts in beliefs and sustainable change in our living systems.
12/21 — Notable Reads
Editors note: The following books are aggregated from the ILR network— we’d love to see them reviewed in future issues! Please reach out to us if you’re interested in writing…
12/21 – The Importance of Trust: An Analysis of Five Drivers of Trust in the Published Statements of 20 Notable National and International Leaders
Irina Kopaneva, Pamela Shockley-Zalabak, Sherwyn Morreale There is much agreement that these are troubling times, characterized by high levels of distrust of many if not most U.S. leaders and institutions. Indeed,…
12/21 – The Unintentional Bully: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Leadership
Michael Wicker The pandemic and the subsequent isolation that so many have experienced has caused unprecedented interruptions in the lives of people. No more is this as true as it is…
12/21 — Vision is Only the Beginning: Educators Talk about Highly Effective Leadership in Colleges and Universities
In these challenging times, it is not just leaders and leadership that are needed, but highly effective leaders and leadership to help institutions of higher learning both survive and thrive.
12/21 – Clare W. Graves Revisited: Beyond Value Systems: Biocultural Co-evolution and the Double Helix Nature of Existence
Said E. Dawlabani Those who are familiar with Clare W. Graves’ work, know him as the academic behind a more popular conception known as Spiral Dynamics. The theory and the…
12/21 — Commentary on Clare W. Graves Revisited Beyond Value Systems: Biocultural Co-evolution and the Double Helix Nature of Existence
“Briefly, what I am proposing is that the psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiralling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower- order behaviour systems to newer, higher-order systems as man’s existential problems change.”
12/21 – Integral Reflections on Science and Spirituality with Peter Merry and Nish Dubashia
Peter Merry and Nish Dubashia Dialogue One: Beyond Evolution and the Cognitive Mind This dialogue was transcribed from a video series between Peter Merry and Nish Dubashia. You can watch…
Eric Reynolds I came across a short 2017 article from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. It relates how the winter solstice marks the beginning of a season of…
12/21 — Robin Lincoln Wood in Conversation with Kathleen Andrews
Robin Lincoln Wood, Kathleen Andrews Kathleen: Good morning, everybody. I’m here with Robin Wood. Today is September 25, 2020. I had a talk with Robin Wood earlier this week and…
The book is called Seeing Through the World by Jeremy Johnson and is a brilliant introduction to the teaching of Jean Gebser, a name you may not even have heard of. As I devoured the book in a single weekend (fortunately, it’s short), I could feel my world once again gently rocking on its foundations, always a good sign that a book has really hit home. I knew instantly I had a tiger by the tail.
12/21 — Aging, Dying, and What You Leave Behind
I hope these suggestions and questions will help families think ahead, beyond the death of a loved one.
12/21 — Moving from Academia to the Business World? Anticipating cultural differences
Based on my own experience, I offer the following insights into differences in culture and the challenges a faculty member may experience on entering the new world of business.
About TLR
Transdisciplinary Leadership Review is a bridging publication that links authors and readers across cultures around the world. It serves leaders, professionals and academics engaged in the practice, development and theory of leadership. It bridges multiple perspectives by drawing on integral theories, transdisciplinarity, complexity, various developmental frameworks, and indigenous wisdom and cosmologies. These bridges are intended to assist all who read the Transdisciplinary Leadership Review to develop and implement comprehensive shifts in strategies by providing lessons from experience, insights, and tools all can use in addressing the challenges facing the world.
Most Commented Articles
Melita Balas Rant Introduction A central regularity discovered by the neo-Piagetian school of constructive human development is that adults (like children) can further evolve in their cognitive, affective and behavioral…
11/30 – “Reinventing Organisations” and the Teal impulse
Jon Freeman So what’s this “Teal” organisations thing? There has been some major buzz generating about “Teal” organisations. It started with Frederic Laloux’s book “Reinventing Organizations”. There are some good…
4/7 – A Conversation Gone MetaIntegral
Eric Reynolds Eric: I’m here with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens. Thank you for joining me today. Sean: Yeah. Definitely. Thanks, Eric. It is good to connect and I’m looking forward to chatting…
Book Reviews
7/21 — Book Review: Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups
Kathleen Walsh, MA Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups is a content-rich, yet very readable, module-based presentation of whole system design principles and how to…
Richard Verboomen A fish pays no attention to the water around it; rather, it is truly fully integrated in its habitat. It hasn’t developed the lenses to see the water,…
Dennis Whittrock The first thing you need to know is that this is a passionate book, written by a passionate author. And, full disclosure, Marco Robledo is a good friend of mine….
Halim Dunsky Bill Torbert’s Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry is a delightful and thought-provoking volume. More than an engaging memoir, it offers a concise summary and practical illustration of…
The book is called Seeing Through the World by Jeremy Johnson and is a brilliant introduction to the teaching of Jean Gebser, a name you may not even have heard of. As I devoured the book in a single weekend (fortunately, it’s short), I could feel my world once again gently rocking on its foundations, always a good sign that a book has really hit home. I knew instantly I had a tiger by the tail.
7/31 – Book Review of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness by Rick Hanson
Written by Brooke Linn “An experience of patience or any other psychological resource is a state of mind, and enjoying it helps turn it into a positive trait embedded in…
12/21 – Understanding and Evaluating Research
Natasha Mantler Understanding and Evaluating Research, written by Sue L. T. McGregor, and published by Sage, is a critical guide on how to become research literate. There are many textbooks available on…
12/21 – A Compassionate Civilization
Cosmas Gitta Robertson Work joins a growing number of public intellectuals who warn of existential threats to humanity and the planet, while highlighting the unprecedented opportunities available to improve our…
Thomas Mengel Given my interest both in leadership and the futures, A Transformation Journey to Creative And Alternative Planetary Futures (Motti, 2019; Cambridge Scholars Publishing) caught my immediate attention. Futures…
12/21 – Through a Still Imperfect Lens
Elliot Talenfeld I have written a book that I would like to share with you. A work of narrative nonfiction, it is the story of my life and relationships, from…
12/21 – Nurturing our Humanity
Suzy Adra Utopia. It is a buzzword these days. What I learned about Utopia during my early days in college was that it is an ideal society where everything is perfect. Eisler…
12/21 – Planetary praxis and pedagogy: Transdisciplinary approaches to environmental sustainability
Sue L. T. McGregor This book is edited by Canadians Shannon Moore and Richard Mitchell, both from Brock University in Ontario, Canada. Their edited collection is 150 pages in length…
06/29 – Leading Beyond the Ego
Annabel Beerel John Knights, President of the U.K based leadership development and coaching organization, LeaderShape Global, along with several members of his team, advocate a new leadership approach for the…
06/29 – The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self
Barbara Nussbaum This book has already been singled out by its academic publisher, Routledge, nominating it for the best nonfiction book in 2018. But for me the compelling reason for…
11/30 – Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time
In Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time Samantha Slade has captured in plain language how to achieve what so many of us have longed for deep down:…
Innovative Development: Emerging Worldviews and Systems Change (Integral Publishers, 2015) is a useful volume (edited by late Tom Christensen—you did a very good job here, Tom, and I wish you…
08/29 – Secular, Sacred, Scientific
Graham Mummery In the prefaces to the current book, Spiral Dynamics in Action: Humanity’s Master Code (Beck, Larsen, Solonin, Viljoen, Johns 2018), the authors and editors explain that this is…
Eugene Pustoshkin In Colin Wilson: Collected Essays on Philosophers, edited by Colin Stanley, with an introduction by John Shand, meaning perception, existential intensity, and overcoming our alienation from power consciousness,…
Russell Fitzpatrick Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization. (2016). Harvard Business Review Press. An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert…
8/31 – The Simpol Solution
Jon Freeman John Bunzl and Nick Duffell (2017). The Simpol Solution. Peter Owen Limited This is a good book, engaging, well written and with many interesting ideas which deserve consideration. It has…
7/21 — ReGen Villages with James Ehrlich
James Ehrlich
James Ehrlich, Eric Reynolds, Jeremy Johnson Editor’s note: Eric and Jeremy were honored to interview James Ehrlich on the future of housing with ReGen Villages for the July 2021 issue…