Integral Leadership: What Is It, and Why Should I Care?
- Topics:
- Business Ethics
- Tags:
- Leadership,
- Management
- Source:
- Catalyst Coaching & Consulting
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Overview: This article explore the theory and practice of leadership from an integral perspective, defines the Four Quadrant model of integral leadership and briefly explores its implications for organizational leaders and their personal leadership development efforts. It provides a more in-depth consideration of how the four quadrants play out in the lives of leaders and practical ways that leaders can develop the skills and capacities connected to each. One reason is that few leadership models are comprehensive enough to take into the account the whole scope of leadership and all of the dimensions in which it takes place. What each theory pays attention to is important, yet it is also only partial. The Four Quadrants model of leadership refers to the fact that there are always four dimensions, or domains, of reality that show up in any person or situation. These four dimensions are revealed by acknowledging the interconnectedness of two basic truths: 1) we are individual human beings who cannot avoid being in relationship with others, and 2) every situation that involves human beings has both an internal and external reality. By combining the individual/collective continuum with the internal/external continuum, we get four dimensions of reality, the internal world of the individual, the external physical reality of the individual, the internal subjective world of the group, and the external physical world of the group.
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Format: WORD | Date: Feb 2003 | Pages: 1
