August Volume 8, Number 1, 2008
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Leading Comments: This Issue
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- Coda
- Feature Articles
- Fresh Perspective
- Leadership Coaching Tips
- Notes from the Field
- Leading Comments
- Leadership Quote
- Global Values Update
- Integral for the Masses
- Leadership Cartoon
- Leadership Emerging
- Dialogue
- Announcements
- Book Reviews
Fresh Perspectives: Developing Integral Leadership Down Under: An Interview with Ron Cacioppe
Russ: I’m very much aware that you’ve been interested in the idea of Integral Leadership for a number of years. I first became aware of your work in publications in the Leadership…
Feature Article: Theoretical Foundations of Integrative Leadership
Integrative leadership is an emerging leadership approach that fosters collective action across many types of boundaries in order to achieve the common good. It brings together leadership concepts and practice…
Notes From the Field: Renaissance2- A Quick Update on the 2nd Quarter of 2008 & Forthcoming Events
At the beginning of this year Renaissance2 was just a very exciting vision amongst a small group of people. Six months later this vision is starting to become reality, and…
Feature Article: The Both/And of Leadership in Living Systems Change
We are faced with a growing list of models related to leadership and living systems change. Too often these models are pitted against each other in our conversations and we…
Global Values Update: Alan Tonkin Developing Countries, Democracy & Values
Introduction In considering the role of developing countries in the 21st Century there is little doubt that their position on the “values scale” largely determines their relative progress on the…
The World is in crisis. No, I didn’t say the world was going to come to an end on New Years Day. Or that there is some kind of huge…
Notes from the Field: A Photo Presentation of the Integral Theory Conference
Introduction: For many involved this conference was not only an eagerly anticipated meeting of minds, but a gathering of kindred Spirits – a family reunion – nourishing for the soul. The…
Integral for the Masses: Leadership Lessons from Randy
As I sit to write this article my mailbox is starting to fill with reports from the attendees at the Integral Theory Conference near San Francisco that was held last…
Leadership Cartoon: Paul Hughes
Paul Hughes is our guest cartoonist. artsfx@sympatico.ca. Born and raised in London England, Married with 2 grown children living in Ontario, Canada.
Leadership Emerging
“CEO Survey: Forward March,” Inc. Special Issue 500: Meet This Year’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, Inc. September 2008. P. 212. Elements of their CEO Survey a spread liberally throughout the publication show no…
Is there a case to understand leadership in a developing nation differently from Leadership in a developed economy? I do not suggest that I know the answer by I do…
S O N G Native Bead Brooch While many will have their minds firmly fixed on the story of the butterfly that, by flapping her wings in the forests of Amazonia creates…
Feature Article: Van der Horst’s Integral Law of Requisite Contrariety: Practical Paradoxes to Live By and Other Notes on the Illusion of Failure
Thinking of going integral? Sure, there’s all this theory, but are you actually, concretely evolving? Are you walking your talk? You may be entertaining limiting beliefs that form self-imposed, but…
For Bill Bates
California Newspaper Publishers Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize Nominee Bill Bates produces weekly cartoons for the Carmel Pine Cone and political cartoons for the Monterey County Herald. Five-thousnd of…
Announcements
Integral Theory Conference Follow-up Conference Recording Purchase the MP3 Recordings of ALL conference presentations, panels and keynote presentations (over 100 hrs of leading edge integral content!). $149. Product will ship…
Notes From the Field: The Simplicity of Complexity: New Eyes, New Lenses, New Palestine A 2nd Tier Presentation by Don Beck and Elza Maalouf at the World Future Society
As I sit here, writing and editing this piece for the Integral Leadership Review, I’m also reflecting on the 3.5 decades I’ve lived with and worked within the theory and framework,…
Leadership Coaching Tip: The Availability of a Leader
The Drucker Foundation has this to say about leadership – “The only definition of leader is someone who has followers”. In other words, as a leader, it is your capacity…
Notes from the Field: Integral Theory Conference, 2008
I would suggest that the Integral Theory Conference, held at JFK University in August 2008 was an unqualified success. Sean Esjborn- Hargensand Mark Foreman were the organizers with a whole…
Notes from the Field: Integral Mexico Project: Creating a Mexican MeshWork, One Step at a Time
In 2003 Dr. Don Beck and I were at Los Pinos (the Mexican White House); a couple of friends of mine “opened the doors”. We were in a huge conference…
Russ closed the last part of this dialogue, “A challenge before us, then, is to demonstrate how multiple lenses can reduce perception of demi-reality and increase perception of reality.” Furthermore…