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Book Review: The Quest Effect
Review of Randall Benson’s The Quest Effect Benson, Randall (2009). The Quest Effect: Mastering Breakthrough in Your Organization. Who is the hero, that more-than-life-sized figure of myth and history and fairy…
Notes from the Field: Integral Sustainability 101 in Seattle
The EOS Alliance (www.eosalliance.org) hosted an introduction to Integral Sustainability on February 28, 2009. The course was co-led by Alan Seid, Director of Training and Lead Consultant for Cascadia Training…
Leadership Emerging
Joanne B. Ciulla, Ed. Ethics, the Heart of Leadership, 2nd edition with a Foreword by James MacGregor Burns. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. Leadership is not a person or a position….
Featured Article: Integral Training and Embodied Business
I run a training and coaching company that works with stress management, leadership and team building amongst other things. What we’ve discovered is that training that isn’t integral doesn’t work very well…
If you are anything at all like me, even a smidgen (a small bit), some changes just come very hard in your life. I know that quitting smoking was like…
Feature Article: Kaipa’s Pyramid as a Yantra: A Tensegrity-Mandala
Understanding How Teams Work One of the most interesting mental models I have come across in recent times is Prasad Kaipa’s use of the tetrahedron. I have been playing with…
Global Values Update
In looking at our world with all its challenges in 2009 there are many opportunities for the better understanding of how “values” play a key role at all levels of…
Notes from the Field: Peter Merry and Meshworking for Change and Development
There is no way we could present a more powerful item for the Notes from the Field section than this presentation Don Beck announced to some list serves. To listen (and watch…
Feature Article: Integral Leadership’s Potential to Position Poverty Within Transdisciplinarity(1)
Integral leaders can appreciate that the sheer magnitude and scale of poverty impacts the whole of humanity; it is planetary in nature. Xuereb astutely observes that a failure in one…
Leading Comments
Russ Volckmann
I am deeply sad at the loss of Bill Bates. Please take a moment and read David Loye’s announcement of Bill’s death and what you might do to help his…