Integral Leadership ReviewA Message to Authors:
We want to invite you to participate in a grand experiment. This is both a new and old approach to building bridges. The bridges we have in mind involve creating generative connections among those interested in leadership. This includes those who are active in roles involving leading in any kind of human system: business, government, local, international, not for profit, consulting, etc. It includes those who are actively involved in the design and delivery of projects and programs for developing leaders in any and all of these systems: developing business executives, micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries, students or citizens. It includes those who read widely, conduct research, think about and formulate theories and models that shape how we understand, how we comprehend leadership and leading in all contexts.
The old approach to building bridges is to engage in the sharing of ideas, experience and perspectives through writing articles, conducting interviews, reviewing publications and the like. The virtual pages of the Integral Leadership Review provide many examples of this. Another old approach is to communicate across stakeholder boundaries: academics to practitioners, developers to practitioners, public to private sector, etc. The virtual pages of the Integral Leadership Review provide examples of this. A third old approach is to use interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary theories and methodologies. Again, you will find these in the Integral Leadership Review.
The new approach to building bridges we offer is to examine all of the old approaches through a transdisciplinary, developmental and/or integral lens. None of these are exactly headline news, but they are still very much underdeveloped, formative and full of potential. What would a transformational approach to leadership look like considered through the lens of developmental psychology? What would be the implications for development and practice? What would the relationship between leader and collaborator (follower) look like through a transdisciplinary approach? What would be the implications for change and transformation of human systems? How is servant leadership an important model in relation to culture and systems? How does it show up at different developmental levels of individuals and systems? The list of questions generated by such an approach to building bridges grows and grows, deepens and deepens.
We invite you, craftsmen and women of leading and leadership, to bring your talents, your skills and your understanding to the task of building these bridges. We can all learn from you. And the bridges will grow stronger and capable of performing their generative functions, even in the face of turbulence and challenge.
