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Book Review
Book Review The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin Bruce L. Gibb Jeremy Rifkin. The Empathic Civilization. New York: Penguin, 2009. If you are a spiralcrat, you are going to love…
Leadership Emerging
John Marshall Roberts. Igniting Inspiration: A Persuasion Manual for Visionaries. Self-published, 2008. First, I am surprised that this book has been out so long and only recently showing up on…
Notes from the Field
International Leadership Association Webinar May 26, 2010 Leadership Development Grady McGonagill and Tina Doerffer by Russ Volckmann Consultant McGonagill and Doerffer of the Bertelsmann Foundation presented their report of a…
Leadership Coaching Tip
The Magnetic Leader as Crucible – How to Create a Transformative Space without Scorching People by Zoë Routh Change and learning can be difficult and painful–hence the notion of “crucible” experiences:…
Notes from the Field
The Gathering by Marc Quinn On March 27th, 2010, a group of 25 people (all but 2 being men) gathered in South London to discuss the state of men in…
Notes from the Field
Reflections on Adult Development through the SRAD Symposium by Ulas Kaplan The 25th Annual Symposium of the Society for Research in Adult Development (SRAD) took place in Philadelphia on March…
Leadership Emerging
Frederick Darbellay, Moira Cockell, Jerome Billotte, Francis Waldvogel, Editors.A Vision of Transdisciplinarity: LayingFoundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue. Laussanne, Switzerland: EPFL Press, 2008. This book deserves a far more in…
Leadership Quote
“The message of heroic leadership is about the sterling character of the leader, not the substance of the issues that the public is called to decide. And the temptation of…
Leading Comments
Raghu Ananthanarayanan
January 2011 Issue Before turning this column over to the Guest Editor of this special issue on India I want to share some of my own relationship to that amazing…