Feature Articles
05/31 – Toward a Creative Criticality: Revisiting Critical Thinking
Tracy Cooper “It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to…
05/31 – Dynamic Collaboration: Strengthening Self-Organization and Collaborative Intelligence in Teams
Otto Laske & Jan De Visch Introduction Dynamic collaboration between members of a team is impossible without self-management. Self-management plays an increasingly important role also in society. Civic Movements are…
05/31 – Authenticity and Integrity in Evolutionary Leadership: A Mexican Woman’s View from the Field
Kathia Castro Laszlo For the last 20 years, my work has been focused on developing individual and collective capacities for social change. Systems and complexity thinking have been the theoretical…
11/30 – The Pragmatic Impact on Leaders & Organizations Of Interventions Based in the Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry Approach
William R. Torbert* *With deep thanks for the improvements suggested by Aliki Nicolaides, Mary Stacey, Richard Izard, Nancy Wallis, and Elaine Herdman-Barker. As shown in this review, fifty years of…
Rick Fenwick Jr. Abstract In many organizational settings, companies use the team concept in order to accomplish organizational goals in a timely and efficient manner. In manufacturing settings, organizations use…
11/30 – Juvenile Leadership: Toward A Theoretical Understanding
Mark Bell Abstract Movement toward a new theory is framed on distinctions between toxic leadership and juvenile leadership in that toxic leadership cannot fully explain certain aspects, behaviors, and actions…
8/31 – Learning to embrace the paradox of leadership
Jaap Geerlof Abstract The complexifying world places contemporary leaders for major challenges in leading organizations. The progressive complexity of the organizational and social context often surfaces as paradox. Surprisingly, paradoxes…
8/31 – Leadership, Mindflow and the Integral Point of It All: The role of Integral Leadership in bringing mindfulness and flow to the workplace
Ron Cacioppe Summary This article reviews the definitions, characteristics and research dealing with mindfulness, meditation and flow and their positive effects on individual health, interpersonal relations, workplace engagement and performance…
8/31 – Sentence completion assessments for ego development, meaning-making, and wisdom maturity, including STAGES
Tom Murray Overview This article began as a series of short white papers providing various types of background information about STAGES and its predecessors. Its sections are relatively independent and…
8/31 – A Response to Critiques of the STAGES Developmental Model
Terri O’Fallon, Tom Murray, Geoff Fitch, Kim Barta, and John Kesler Executive Summary Our goal in this article is to respond to the Critique‘s call for rigor by providing detailed explanations, and…