Feature Articles
Religions and Leadership
Pedro Barrajon, L.C. The role that religions play has been acknowledged recently in the fields of culture, politics, economics and the different domains of social life. In the Marxist doctrine,…
Mafia Organization: Governance Processes and Leadership Function
Franco Di Maria and Giorgio Falgares Abstract Even though Cosa Nostra is the most powerful criminal organization inthe world, few national and international studies have been carried out on this…
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…
The Conscious Organization: Workplaces for the Self-Transcended
John Renesch Abraham Maslow’s famous Hierarchy of Needs defines “self-actualization” as a state sought by all human beings once we have satisfied the more basic needs of survival, sexual gratification…
Values Driven Leadership
Kenton Hyatt and Cheryl De Ciantis Introduction This exploration into leadership is not yet another leadership prescription, offering what should be done. It is an approach that offers a multi-prism…
Three Steps to the Democratization of Enlightenment
Marc Gafni Part One: Stepping Beyond “Local Means Global” I was looking with my son at Google Earth the other morning. I wanted to show him my old neighborhood in…
Expanding the Boundaries of Our Capacities through Working toward Experiencing Transformative Learning in Service
Oliver Ngodo Introduction Some people would recall that some time they simply become aware that they have gone through a ‘peak’ experience; they have reached an ecstatic moment – no,…
Nancy Southern, Sylvia Gaffney, and Bernice Moore Results of a qualitative study show how leaders experience complexity and how it is changing their understanding of their role and ways of…
Nick Ross No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of…
Why “DESIGN ME A PLANET”
Michel Saloff-Coste After thirty glorious years crashing in the late 70s on the first oil shock, we had 30 years during which we have sunk deeper and deeper into economic,…