Feature Articles
Feature Article: Leadership in Requisite Organization: A Spiral Dynamics Perspective
Herb Koplowitz This paper has two purposes. First, it is an exploration and explanation of leadership as it is understood within Requisite Organization (Jaques 1996). RO (Requisite Organization) is a…
Feature Article: Integral Leadership as Supporting Epistemic Sophistication in Knowledge-Building Communities
Introduction In a general sense leaders “lead, inspire, and/or organize” people to form beliefs or take actions and theories of leadership cover a wide range of concerns, including management, organizational…
Feature Article: Silverbacks, Connectors, and Hybrids: Understanding the Psychology of Network Development
By Max Klau, Ed.D., Senior Researcher for Leadership and Evaluation. City Year, Inc. Contact Information: 10 Craigie St. Apt. 5, Somerville, MA 02143 maxklau@juno.com Phone: (617) 413-6316 Abstract What is the…
Abstract One way or another, we are all both leaders and followers. The value of an integral understanding of leaders and followers seems to have become heightened commensurate with a…
The life conditions and problems we face as a species, as countries, as organizations and as individuals demand increasing complex/elegant solutions. The type of mature leader who can respond to…
Feature Article: Teaching vs. Preaching: The Power of Using Key Distinctions in Integral Leadership Development
Summary One of the defining hallmarks of “second stage” integral thinking is the ability to move beyond seeing our current developmental stage as the “one true stage” that “should” be…
Feature Article: Field Testing the Integral Model in the Middle East
Abou Nidal, our East Jerusalem Arab driver, is a big sturdy man who promised to take us anywhere in the Palestinian Territories. “These are our people. Safety is not an…
Feature Article: “Consciousizing” the Middle East: Don Beck in Israel and Palestine, Part 2
“There will be twenty seven of us seated around a long U-shaped table. One of the walls consists of a series of large square glass windows overlooking the silky blue…
Feature Article: Reflections on the State of Integral Leadership Theory and Development
It has been almost ten years since Chris Newham, Prasad Kaipa and I had our first conversations about integral theory and Integral Leadership. Influenced by Howard Gardner’s work on multiple…
A few years ago, I was invited to work with Hodgson Sealants Ltd, a Yorkshire-based family firm. They were a leading manufacturer of sealants and Europe’s single biggest supplier of…