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Book Integral Leadership

    Book Details:
  • Author : John P. Forman
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2013-04-18
  • ISBN : 1438446284
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Integral Leadership written by John P. Forman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book offers leaders a way to determine what theories, models, and tools best meet the needs of their organizations. Authors and organizational consultants John P. Forman and Laurel A. Ross know leaders are awash in business theory, often coming from well-thumbed bestsellers. But how do you match promising theories to real people and circumstances? Using the insights of Integral Theory, particularly Ken Wilber's AQAL framework, the authors provide a simple yet elegant outline that appreciates and engages a wide range of leadership theories and techniques. Four major leadership styles emerge: the Impulsive, Diplomatic, Achiever, and Pluralistic approaches. The authors describe the presuppositions, characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of each using a variety of real-life examples of individual leaders and organizations. Forman and Ross propose an emerging Integral perspective and suggest integral modes of performance management, change management, and teamwork. Ultimately, the Integral perspective gives leaders the insight and flexibility to use a range of resources to meet organizational needs in a rapidly changing world.

Book Mastering Leadership

Download or read book Mastering Leadership written by Robert J. Anderson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your leadership a competitive advantage, or is it costing you? How do you know? Are you developing your leadership effectiveness at the pace of change? For most leaders today, complexity is outpacing their personal and collective development. Most leaders are in over their heads, whether they know it or not. The most successful organizations over time are the best led. While this has always been true, today escalating global complexity puts leadership effectiveness at a premium. Mastering Leadership involves developing the effectiveness of leaders—individually and collectively—and turning that leadership into a competitive advantage. This comprehensive roadmap for optimal leadership features: Breakthrough research that connects increased leadership effectiveness with enhanced business performance The first fully integrated Universal Model of Leadership—one that integrates the best theory and research in the fields of Leadership and Organizational Development over the last half century A free, online self-assessment of your leadership, using the Leadership Circle Profile, visibly outlining how you are currently leading and how to develop even greater effectiveness The five stages in the evolution of leadership—Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive—along with the organizational structures and cultures that develop at each of these stages Six leadership practices for evolving your leadership capability at a faster pace A map of your optimal path to greater leadership effectiveness Case stories that facilitate pragmatic application of this Leadership Development System to your particular situation This timeless, authoritative text provides a systemic approach for developing your senior leaders and the leadership system of your organization. It does not recommend quick fixes, but argues that real development requires a strategic, long-term, and integrated approach in order to forge more effective leaders and enhanced business performance. Mastering Leadership offers a developmental pathway to bring forth the highest and best use of yourself, your life, and your leadership. By more meaningfully deploying all of who you are every day, individually and collectively, you will achieve a leadership legacy consistent with your highest aspirations.

Book Integral Ubuntu Leadership

Download or read book Integral Ubuntu Leadership written by Passmore Musungwa Matupire and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four worlds as we know them today, the North, West, South and East, are out of balance. The West and the North generally dominate on a global scale while the South and the East lag behind. This also happens at individual, societal and organisational levels. It is clear that there is a need to change the way we lead our organisations in business and the way we think about leading in politics. Here is a comprehensive exploration of the Integral Leadership challenges of the twenty-first century. The author combines the African philosophy of Ubuntu or humanness, the cornerstone of African thought and life, with the concept of Integral Leadership, with particular reference to Lessem and Schieffer’s combining, in their 2010 book Integral Research and Innovation, of nature and community, culture and spirituality, science and technology, and politics and economies. This connectedness in the new paradigm of wholeness and relatedness goes beyond the relationships of human beings alone and involves experiences with nature and community. Leadership is viewed from an indigenous and exogenous perspective, bringing together a newly Integral approach, which will also introduce industry ecology and knowledge ecology as an evolution of the Ubuntu philosophy. The author offers a unique forum through which to commit to paper the operationalisation of the Integral Ubuntu Leadership model in catalysing development efforts and in CARE-ing for communities and societies.

Book Integral Leadership

    Book Details:
  • Author : John P. Forman
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2013-05-13
  • ISBN : 1438446276
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Integral Leadership written by John P. Forman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking book that brings the insights of Integral Theory to business and organizational development.

Book Integral Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elijah V.
  • Publisher : Xspurts.com
  • Release : 2024-03-19
  • ISBN : 1779704763
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Integral Theory written by Elijah V. and published by Xspurts.com. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Integral Theory: A Multidimensional Approach,' step into a comprehensive exploration of Integral Theory's rich and multi-faceted framework. This profound book provides a deep dive into the origins, concepts, and contributors of Integral Theory in a seamlessly understandable format.Across a carefully curated set of chapters, you'll delve into the core concept of Methodological Pluralism, its significance in Integral theory, and real-world applications. The book further deconstructs intricate elements of the theory such as Quadrants, Levels, Lines, States, and Types, clarifying their purpose, interaction and their practical examples.Venture through chapters dedicated to Integral Life Practice, providing a step-by-step guide right from the introduction to its holistic role in the framework. Gain insights into the AQAL Framework's breakdown and its vital role across multiple fields in Integral Theory.The book logically links Integral Theory's approach to Psychology and Spirituality, pushing the borders of traditional understanding. The text also skillfully grapples with leadership styles, Integral ecology, and the theory's application in education, all under the Integral lens. For those in the corporate world, learn how Integral Theory can supercharge Business Management and Organizational development through dedicated chapters. Understand the critical relationship between notable social movements and Integral Theory, including future prospects.Lastly, 'Integral Theory: A Multidimensional Approach' encourages a balanced perspective by examining criticisms of Integral Theory, fostering an open-ended and intellectually transparent dialogue for readers. Whether you're a scholar, a researcher, or a lifelong learner, this book is an invaluable resource to better understand and apply the multidimensional and transformative insights from Integral Theory. Broaden your perspective and revolutionize your worldview with 'Integral Theory: A Multidimensional Approach. It is a remarkable read that reflects the complex interplay of life through the lens of Integral Theory. Experience it now!

Book 3D Management  an Integral Theory for Organisations in the Vanguard of Evolution

Download or read book 3D Management an Integral Theory for Organisations in the Vanguard of Evolution written by Marco A. Robledo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If organisations are not working as well as they could, it is because they are still being managed by obsolete principles rooted in the Industrial Age. Until now, management has been a very one-dimensional discipline, in which only profits mattered. Having eyes fixed squarely upon the bottom line has endangered the planet, increased inequality, and disengaged employees. It is an unsustainable situation that calls for the radical redesign of management philosophical foundations. This book shows how to liberate organisations from the constraining assumptions and structures that hold them back, and how to build more conscious, humane, efficacious, and responsible forms of enterprise. 3D Management is an application of Ken Wilber’s ground-breaking Integral Theory that embodies the next stage of management evolution: smarter, nimbler, wiser, fairer, and fitter for the forthcoming metamodern times. This disruptive theory denies the imperialism of the bottom line and replaces it with a harmonic triumvirate that takes profit, people, planet, and purpose into account equally. An integral organisation is made up of three fundamental and irreducible dimensions: science, arts, and ethics, which refer respectively to the techno-economical, developmental, and moral aspects of organisational reality. These three aspects are woven together into an essential unit by the spiritual dimension, which strives for unity and meaning. 3D Management is a summum bonum of these four key dimensions to achieve sustainable excellence, spur organisational development, and create radically engaging workplaces, as well as making a better world. The text features more than 60 vanguard organisations, harbingers of the teal consciousness that will define the future of management. “One thing is certain: the more a truly integral business catches on, the more whole and fulfilled that humanity’s future will be. And 3D Management will have helped pave the way.” (from Ken Wilber’s foreword)

Book Integral Green Zimbabwe

Download or read book Integral Green Zimbabwe written by Elizabeth Mamukwa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integral Green Zimbabwe: An African Phoenix Rising by Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer and Liz Mamukwa is the first book in the Integral Green Society and Economy series, a series which has three overarching aims. The first aim is to link together two major movements of our time, one philosophical, the other practical. The philosophical movement is towards what many today are calling an 'integral' age, while the practical is the 'green' movement, duly aligned with that of sustainable development. The second is to blend together elements of nature and community, culture and spirituality, science and technology, politics and economics, thus serving to bring about an 'integral green' vision, albeit with a focus on business and economics. As such, the authors transcend the limitations to sustainable development and environmental economics, which are overly ecological, if not also technological, in orientation, and exclude social and cultural elements. Thirdly, this particular volume focuses specifically on Zimbabwe, as well as Southern Africa, drawing on the particular issues and capacities that this country and region represents. The emphasis on Zimbabwe and Southern Africa transpired not only because two of the editors (Lessem and Mamukwa) are Zimbabwean in origin, but because Zimbabwe is today like a phoenix rising from the ashes, and has the opportunity to recreate itself anew.

Book Integral Green Zimbabwe

Download or read book Integral Green Zimbabwe written by Dr Alexander Schieffer and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-12-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integral Green Zimbabwe: An African Phoenix Rising by Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer and Liz Mamukwa is the first book in the Integral Green Society and Economy series, a series which has three overarching aims. The first aim is to link together two major movements of our time, one philosophical, the other practical. The philosophical movement is towards what many today are calling an 'integral' age, while the practical is the 'green' movement, duly aligned with that of sustainable development. The second is to blend together elements of nature and community, culture and spirituality, science and technology, politics and economics, thus serving to bring about an 'integral green' vision, albeit with a focus on business and economics. As such, the authors transcend the limitations to sustainable development and environmental economics, which are overly ecological, if not also technological, in orientation, and exclude social and cultural elements. Thirdly, this particular volume focuses specifically on Zimbabwe, as well as Southern Africa, drawing on the particular issues and capacities that this country and region represents. The emphasis on Zimbabwe and Southern Africa transpired not only because two of the editors (Lessem and Mamukwa) are Zimbabwean in origin, but because Zimbabwe is today like a phoenix rising from the ashes, and has the opportunity to recreate itself anew.

Book Agile Transformation

Download or read book Agile Transformation written by Michael Spayd and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of Agile and Scrum coaches and practitioners now recognize that the best way to maximize the value of these approaches is to extend them to the entire enterprise. It's not just about making software development work better: organizations can gain value from agile approaches and lessons in a wide variety of processes and systems. Agile practitioners can help organizations achieve these goals -- but, to do so, they need new skills and deeper knowledge. In Coaching the Agile Enterprise, Michael K. Spayd applies tools from professional systems coaching, organization development, change theory, developmental psychology, and leadership thinking to the profound challenges of creating an agile enterprise. He presents a complete foundation of tools, models, and mindsets; then, using realistic case studies, he applies them to Agile scenarios ranging from the individual to enterprise level. Along the way, he covers issues ranging from team management to business unit integration; culture and community to organizational boundaries. Along the way, Spayd shares deep insights about organizations, executives, and culture, drawn from 25 years of personal experience catalyzing change in organizations of all sizes and types, from startups to the Fortune(R) 500. Each of these insights shares a single goal: to help Agile practitioners move beyond teams into the enterprise and executive space.

Book Integral Spirituality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ken Wilber
  • Publisher : Shambhala Publications
  • Release : 2007-11-13
  • ISBN : 9780834822443
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Integral Spirituality written by Ken Wilber and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integral Spirituality is being widely called the most important book on spirituality in our time. Applying his highly acclaimed integral approach, Ken Wilber formulates a theory of spirituality that honors the truths of modernity and postmodernity—including the revolutions in science and culture—while incorporating the essential insights of the great religions. He shows how spirituality today combines the enlightenment of the East, which excels at cultivating higher states of consciousness, with the enlightenment of the West, which offers developmental and psychodynamic psychology. Each contributes key components to a more integral spirituality. On the basis of this integral framework, a radically new role for the world’s religions is proposed. Because these religions have such a tremendous influence on the worldview of the majority of the earth’s population, they are in a privileged position to address some of the biggest conflicts we face. By adopting a more integral view, the great religions can act as facilitators of human development: from magic to mythic to rational to pluralistic to integral—and to a global society that honors and includes all the stations of life along the way.

Book Dialectical Thinking for Integral Leaders

Download or read book Dialectical Thinking for Integral Leaders written by Otto Laske and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about knowledge acquisition unfolding over an individual's lifespan, with immediate effects on how the individual collaborates with others. Pivotal in this unfolding is the role of dialectic that moves an individual's thinking from objectifying, logical understanding, or identity thinking (Adorno 1999), to a more holistic and dynamic, transformational world view. The book focuses on the nature of dialectical movements-in-thought, made traceable by the Dialectic Thought Form Framework

Book Integral Theory and Transdisciplinary Action Research in Education

Download or read book Integral Theory and Transdisciplinary Action Research in Education written by Bohac Clarke, Veronika and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its growing recognition in education, the importance of Integral Theory is slowly entering mainstream academia through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Addressing the theory’s complexity is important for researchers to learn how to apply it in their classrooms and promote a more inclusive educational environment. Integral Theory and Transdisciplinary Action Research in Education provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of the Integral Theory model and its applications within educational contexts. With a diverse array of research problems approached through an inclusive theory framework and featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as graduate student research, inclusion culture, and organizational learning processes, this publication is ideally designed for graduate students, educators, academicians, researchers, scholars, educational administrators, and policymakers seeking current research on the utility and promise of Integral Theory as a meta-framework for methodological pluralism and transdisciplinary research.

Book Leading With Diversity  Equity and Inclusion

Download or read book Leading With Diversity Equity and Inclusion written by Joan Marques and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides managers and leaders toward greater insight and more deliberate practices in regards to diversity, equity, and inclusion addressing leadership, operations, and the educational environments. The authors consider the qualities of awakened leadership as critical components for establishing and nurturing a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment. The book argues that the only way destructive conflicts can be resolved on a lasting basis is through profound collaboration, which can be embedded in performance structures by questioning biases, and becoming aware of limiting mindsets and traditions, that keep parts of society subjugated. It offers a wide range of constructive approaches that lead to higher awareness, thus, better understanding and focus on stakeholders. Finally, it presents examples of diversity-engendered issues and their resolutions from around the globe.

Book Integral Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sean Esbjörn-Hargens
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2010-08-01
  • ISBN : 1438433506
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book Integral Education written by Sean Esbjörn-Hargens and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading researchers and practitioners explore the frontiers of education from an integral perspective.

Book Integral Dynamics

Download or read book Integral Dynamics written by Dr Alexander Schieffer and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of integral dynamics is based on the view that the development of individual leaders or entrepreneurs requires the simultaneous development of institutions and societies. It seeks a specific way forward for each society, fundamentally different from, but drawing on, its past. Nearly every natural science has been transformed from an analytically-based approach to a dynamic one: now it is time for society and culture to follow suit locally and globally. Each culture, discipline and person is incomplete and is in need of others in order to develop and evolve. This book sets out a curriculum for a new integral, trans-cultural and trans-disciplinary area of study, inclusive of, but extending beyond, economics and enterprise. It embraces a trans-personal perspective, linking self with community, enterprise and society, and focusing on the vital relationship between local identity and global integrity. For the government policy maker, the enlightened business practitioner, and the student and researcher into economics and enterprise, the new discipline is set out here in complete detail by a multi-national team of Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series authors. Illuminated with examples relating the conceptual to the practical, this is a text, not for a pre-modern, modern, or even post-modern era, but for what has been called our trans-modern age.

Book The End of Leadership

Download or read book The End of Leadership written by Barbara Kellerman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the pioneers in the field of leadership studies comes a provocative reassessment of how people lead in the digital age: in The End of Leadership, Barbara Kellerman reveals a new way of thinking about leadership—and followership—in the twenty-first century. Building off of the strengths and insights of her work as a scholar and a teacher, Kellerman critically reexamines our most strongly-held assumptions about the role of leadership in driving success. Revealing which of our beliefs have become dangerously out-of-date thanks to advances in social media culture, she also calls into question the value of the so-called “leadership industry” itself. Asking whether leadership can truly be taught, Kellerman forces us to think critically and expansively about how to thrive as leaders in a global information age.

Book The Integral Vision

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ken Wilber
  • Publisher : Shambhala Publications
  • Release : 2018-11-06
  • ISBN : 0834841797
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Integral Vision written by Ken Wilber and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pop-culture presentation of the Integral Approach from visionary genius Ken Wilber, designed as an easy introduction to his work. What if we attempted to create an all-inclusive map that touches the most important factors from all of the world’s great traditions? Using all the known systems and models of human growth—from the ancient sages to the latest breakthroughs in cognitive science—Ken Wilber distills their major components into five simple elements, ones that readers can relate to their own experience right now. With clear explanations, practical exercises, and familiar examples, The Integral Vision invites readers to share in the innovative approach to spiritual growth, business success, and personal relationships. This book has been adapted from the 2009 graphic edition. This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series. The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.