Feature Articles
Integral Design Thinking, Guessing the Future
Lisa Norton Design is focused on solving problems, and as such requires intervention, not just understanding. Whereas scientists describe how the world is, designers suggest how it might be. It…
The Relationship between Spiral Dynamics and the Gell-Mann Curve
Raghu Ananthanarayanan I had a very enlightening conversation with scientist Dr. S. Naranan who works in the area of cosmic energy and particle physics, but also bends his considerable intellect…
Leadership Wisdom and the Perspective of Time
Andrew Munro “Decisions taken today are driven by our visions of tomorrow and based on what we learned yesterday.” – Professor Bruce Lloyd Executive Summary The concept of wisdom is…
Scott Lichtenstein Introduction: We’ve Been Practicing Leadership for Over 6,000 Years; What Else Do We Need to Know? The Pharaohs leading the cadres managing the work teams that built the…
Perception, Reversibility, “Flesh”: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology and Leadership as Embodied Practice
Donna Ladkin From the end of the 1990s to the present, a growing shift can be seen in the leadership literature away from predominantly cognitively-based accounts to those which recognise…
Epoch of Transformation: An Interpersonal Leadership Model for the 21st Century–Part 1
Nick Ross ”There is nothing in the world that does not have its decisive moment, and the masterpiece of good conduct is to see and seize this moment.” Cardinal de…
Getting Back to the Body: Leadership Lessons on Power from the Martial Arts and Somatic Tradition
John Tuite Why the Body Matters to Leadership Some twenty plus years ago when I began training as a secondary school teacher, I had a few run-ins with a difficult…
Analytic-Network Coaching©: Coaching for Distributed ‘Eco’ Leadership and Organizational Change
Simon Western Introduction Organizations are changing fast, driven by emerging new technologies and globalization that makes our world smaller and more interdependent. Transnational corporations, population increase, new communication technologies,…
Towards an Integrated Assessment of Leadership Potential
Maretha Prinsloo Abstract This paper focuses on the assessment of leadership potential in terms of a number of related philosophical, theoretical, and technical considerations. A critical evaluation of current assessment…
Transdisciplinarity in Action: An Ethnographic Study of MIT SENSEable City Lab’s Organizational Culture
Luca Simeone and Carlo Ratti SENSEable City Lab (SCL) is a research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aimed at investigating and anticipating the ways digital technologies are…