Feature Articles
Feature Article: Integrative Leadership: Building a Foundation for Personal, Interpersonal and Organizational Success
When you know what Integrative Leadership is all about, and commit to the Integrative Leadership path, you will find that illustrations of it can be found in all parts of…
Feature Article: “Level 5 Leadership”: Leadership that Transforms Organizations and Creates Sustainable Results
Maureen Metcalf We have been hearing about “Level 5 Leadership” since Jim Collins’ book Good to Great became popular over 5 years ago. This book made the term “Level 5” a common…
Feature Article: Evolutionary Dynamics and Social Systems
Peggy Holman and Tom Atlee A small but rapidly-growing number of people are taking the viewpoint that humanity has the potential to become “conscious evolution”. They believe that we are…
Feature Article: The Journeys of 2nd Tier Leaders Over Time
This article compares the long-term results of leadership case studies from four countries (Brazil, England, Denmark, USA). The long-term results are interpreted through the Integral lens, and the leaders compared…
Feature Article: Celebrating Work to Get Fit for the Future
The identity of the company unit (in the Netherlands) and individuals has been changed in order to honor commitments to anonymity and confidentiality. We anticipate, perhaps in a follow up…
Feature Article: A Society on the Verge of Leaping
Last February—while a new Dutch government was in the making—probably one of the first attempts for integral policy making in the 21st century started to see the light of day….
Feature Article: Sustainable Results/Achievements Through Resilience and Leadership
The challenge for leadership development is to safeguard both talent development and economic growth by: Changing work patterns and the relationship between learning, creating and producing; Steering in equal measure…
The Confusion of Tongues by Gustav Doré (1865) Leida Schuringa 1. Introduction The Netherlands has a traditional interest in the participation of civilians, and even more is being expected from this approach…
Feature Article: Leadership and the Interpenetration of Structure and State Stages: A Subjective Exposé
So much of my own experience of myself is that of intellectual epiphany, not necessarily always correct, but often self-satisfying. I feel like a 10-year-old, or a teenager – certain…
Is Sex Necessary?—James Thurber Dedicated to the James McGregor Burns Academy of Leadership The following essay considers useful wisdom and knowledge for the practice, development, and study of leadership. Based…