Feature Articles
Feature Article: Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education, Part 5
Sustainability through Transdisciplinarity and Integrality: Institute for Sustainable Futures, the University of Technology, Sydney Australia Russ Volckmann and Sue L.T.McGregor We have been exploring “academic” programs in transdisciplinarity for about…
Feature Article: An Integral Approach to Project Management
Brad McManus & Ron Cacioppe Abstract Projects are an important management approach to improving organisational effectiveness. This paper describes how project management can contribute to achievement of an organisation’s…
Featured Article: Organisations, AQAL, and the Global Context
John M. Bunzl There has hardly been an epoch in which organisations played a more prominent role than our own. Be they governments, businesses or non-governmental organisations (NGOs), all of…
Featured Article: Demystifying Transdisciplinary Ontology: Multiple Levels of Reality and the Hidden Third
Sue L. T. McGregor Acknowledgement: Sincere gratitude to Professor Basarab Nicolescu (President of International Center for Transdisciplinary Research, CIRET) for vetting a draft of this paper, and for being such…
Feature Article: Unraveling the DNA of Bharti Airtel
Anil Nayar Editors Note: In the early nineties, India went through a liberalization of its economy. The era of government controls and large Public sector investments gave way to an…
S. Suresh Kumar Abstract Self system models have a great bearing on our personality, perceptions and personal leadership abilities and approaches. The usual models are contingent on subjective systems based…
Raghu Ananthanarayanan A Parable: A young woman had committed suicide. She was the daughter of a respected village elder. It was an open secret that this girl was in love…
Feature Article: ‘Koodam’ – Breaking Hierarchy, Building Democracy!
V. Suresh and Pradip Prabhu The editor’s comments: The Koodam represents one of the most successful applications of second tier thinking that I have come across. The authors of this…
Gagandeep Singh Preamble This article takes a close hard look at Organization Design. We asked ourselves, why should we write about Organization Design amidst times when managers all across the…
Feature Article: ‘Amirtasya Putraha’ (Children of Immortal Bliss) Rejoice being ‘Slumdog Millionaire’?
O. B. Ramasubramanian Editors Note:The dawn of Independence in India also saw the breakdown of a dialogue between the believers in the Nehruvian Model of development and the Gandhian. What…