Integral Leadership

Laurel A. Ross, John P. Forman

Description

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.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Foundations of Perspective

2. The Four-Dimensional Lens

3. Intelligent Performance

4. The Individual Making of Meaning

5. Collective Meaning-Making

6. Integral Meaning-Making: Individual and Collective

7. The Next Half-Step

Notes
References
Index

Sujets

• System

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 18 avril 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438446288
• Langue: English

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Praise for Integral Leadership
“Forman and Ross offer a superb and much needed contribution to our understanding of the ‘next wave’ of leadership, but far beyond suggesting a leap toward some passing fad of competencies and skills, they provide something profound: insight into the capacity of consciousness we require to face and to transcend the challenges of our time. While many forays into Integral Theory remain abstract and conceptual, Forman and Ross bring Integral leadership to life by richly illustrating this powerful theory with potent examples from the field. This will be an invaluable text for leadership educators and leaders alike.”
— David McCallum, Le Moyne College
“At last, some help to organize—and go beyond—the platitudes of quick-fix, easyanswer, canned-method leadership. There's not a leader in the private or public sectors that couldn't benefit from a thoughtful read. And, though Forman and Ross caution their framework is not ‘simple,’ they are correct in saying it provides clarity. They bring additional value to the leadership literature as well: rather than prodding leaders to create overnight personal, social and cultural transformations, they gently suggest taking a ‘half-step.’ Done well, a ‘half step’ might be all we need.”
— Glenna Crooks, President, Strategic Health Policy International
“Forman and Ross have gathered patterns from an impressive range of perspectives on leadership. They breathe new life into the leadership skills, techniques, and attitudes that continue to serve, while also showing where the limitations of previous approaches can be overcome. This book deserves a wide readership and should stimulate a new wave of organizational leadership confidence and insight for many years to come.”
— Larry Dossey, author of Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing
“ Integral Leadership is a well-thought out, well-researched and important book. It provides a wide lens for understanding business and leadership and will support any business in its quest to move to the next level of organization and performance.”
— Frederic Luskin, Senior Consultant of Health Promotion at Stanford University
“Forman and Ross's book will change the way leaders around the world understand themselves as leaders and their roles in leadership in every kind of organization, though I am especially enthusiastic for what this book could do for the variety of organizations associated with healthcare. Integral Leadership delivers on the promise that so many other leadership books make: it presents solid, pragmatic, and profound insights that will stretch and deepen leadership perspectives. Their timing couldn't be better.”
— Barbara Montgomery Dossey, author of Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice
“The brightest, most respected thinkers today (Friedman, Collins, Pink) are all saying the same thing about what is required for organizational effectiveness in this chaotic, demanding, rich, and fast paced planet we now inhabit: simultaneous, creative, collaborative, informed, and iterative thinking and acting. Integral Leadership takes up this challenge elegantly by providing a comprehensive map for effectiveness and deep hearted organizational commitment to newly required goals and values.”
— Paul Pinegar, Consulting Psychologist and Senior Executive Coach
“This book unpacks for us an integral view that naturally leads to a new set of distinctions applicable to the complex conversations facing us today. Integral Leadership is a more complete description of how ‘it’ works whether the conversation is business, politics, health care, raising families, personal growth or spiritual development. Compared to our current set of distinctions, mental maps and conversations, Integral Leadership provides an outline that takes us another half-step along the path—and that is a good distance from where we are now.”
— Gary Colpaert, Vice President of Surgery at Froedtert Hospital
“We live in a time of an exponentially increasing intensity and rate of change, with old systems crumbling before our eyes, and new prototypes popping up all over the place. Leadership is a crucial factor in these chaos points, as the ideas and examples we put out there now have a disproportionately big impact on the future. Integral Leadership is an example of the emerging worldview inviting new forms into our lives that are fit for the world we are facing. This is not a luxury item—it is essential to our evolution.”
— Peter Merry, author of Evolutionary Leadership: Integral Leadership for an Increasingly Complex World
“This book opens the eyes to a vibrant new landscape of higher business purpose and re-imagined American commerce. Starting with a focus on values and purpose, the book's clear descriptions of the integral environment offer a shift in perception as a path to leadership that integrates and unifies to more effectively shape an emerging positive reality.”
— Karma Ruder, Director of Community Collaboration, Center for Ethical Leadership
“John Forman and Laurel Ross' book is an excellent contribution to the emerging integral perspective. It will be highly useful for leaders who want to improve their own performance by using this powerful new form of philosophical technology.”
— Steve McIntosh, author of Evolution's Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins
“My friend and colleague John Forman is a great spiritual visionary grounded in reality. This book is inspirational and practical and brings additional wisdom that leaders need to navigate the wild tides of change at this time.”
— Rachel Eryn Kalisk, Founding Facilitator Project Reconnections

SUNY series in Integral Theory

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, editor

INTEGRAL LEADERSHIP
THE NEXT HALF-STEP
John P. Forman
and
Laurel A. Ross

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Forman, John P.
Integral leadership : the next half-step / John P. Forman and Laurel A. Ross.
p. cm. — (SUNY series in integral theory)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-4626-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4384-4627-1 (hardcover)
1. Leadership. I. Ross, Laurel A. II. Title.
HD57.7.F673 2013
658.4'092—dc23
2012018265
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
List of Illustrations Figure I.1 Integral model: Individual/collective dimensions Figure I.2 Integral model: Interior/exterior dimensions Figure I.3 Integral model: Quadrants Figure I.4 Behavioral quadrant Figure I.5 Social quadrant Figure I.6 Intentional quadrant Figure I.7 Cultural quadrant Figure 1.1 Individual and collective Figure 1.2 Interpretation vs. fact (part 1) Figure 1.3 Interpretation vs. fact (part 2) Figure 2.1 Aligning four dimensions Figure 2.2 Purpose illustration Figure 2.3 Clarifying purpose Figure 3.1 Sustaining high performance Figure 3.2 Stockdale Paradox Figure 3.3 Moral dilemmas integral map Figure 3.4 Increasing long-term vision Figure 5.1 Impulsive-centered organizational structure Figure 5.2 Diplomatic-centered organizational structure Figure 5.3 Achiever-centered organizational structure Figure 5.4 Pluralistic-centered organizational structure Figure 6.1 Potential integrally-informed organizational structure Figure 7.1 Four dimensions of team work Figure 7.2 Stages of team development
Acknowledgments
We have done our best to credit those whose work has been instrumental in this effort, but there are several people whose suggestions, influence, and support appear throughout this book. To credit Ken Wilber sufficiently would require an endnote for nearly every page, but we have tried to catch those specific references that will help others pursue their curiosity further and be delighted with the deeper comprehension that Ken's books will surely provide. What you may not see is the years of support that Ken has so generously given in helping to bring this book to life.
The same must be said for Dr. Susann Cook-Greuter, who was more instrumental than we can adequately credit her in the taming of earlier drafts, for her insistence on academic rigor, and for her hours of teaching. We also owe a deep debt of gratitude to Paul Landraitis and Dr. Bert Parlee for the remarkable insights, clarity, creativity, and patience that suffuse this book. Our work together and in various combinations burned a few test tubes, but produced no small amount of confidence in the value of Integrally-informed practices. Dr. Don Beck's teaching and counsel is laced through the book as well, but we are especially appreciative for his thoughts on large systems interactions.
We are also grateful to Rand Stagen and many of Stagen's clients for providing a variety of living laboratories for field-testing a great deal of our intuitions and for helping us to recalibrate and refine. Additional thanks to Steve McIntosh, Dr. Cindy Lou Golin, Joan Borysenko, Larry and Barbie Dossey, Dr. Robert Kegan, Jenny