The integrators
Subtitle: the next evolution in leadership, knowledge and value creation
By: Ronnie Lessem
Series: Routledge focus
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781472481214
Subjects: Social aspects; Leadership; Social change; Organizational change
Description: In the 1970s and 1980s a new breed of management writers emerged, with a view to taking management theory, and practice, onto the next level of its evolution. However, in spite of the rich and innovative thought - leadership that developed in those decades, somewhere along the way, the world of management and enterprise, took a wrong turn at the dawn of the nineties. In other words, while certain writers acted as a transitional influence, reacting against the 'analytical management' of old, the powers that be went backwards rather than forward, leadership and entrepreneurship (including social entrepreneurship) being a regressive rather than a progressive development. As such, the author in an attempt to take the management agenda forward, duly influenced in the 1980s like so many others by the 'east', drew on the Indian energy system to co-evolve a variegated approach to management that included leadership and entrepreneurship, but also much more. Here, the author takes the reader into a psychological (spectral), and a cultural (integral) journey, set alongside individual, organizational and societal learning and innovation in each case. Such a journey will serve to both differentiate and integrate, thereby bringing about managerial and enterprise unity-in-variety. Lessem transcends both standardized notions of management and also unduly personalized approaches to leadership and entrepreneurship that are universally applied to all-comers in all cultures. The outcome of such will be the introduction of Integrators in the 21st Century to replace leaders, managers and entrepreneurs from the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Foreword / by Jayne Anne Gadhia; title: Spectral origination; title: Entrepreneur to integrator : the next evolution in leadership, knowledge and value creation; title: Origins of spectral theory : a trans-cultural and trans-neural heritage; title: Structure & dynamics : foundation; title: The character spectrum : horizontal differentiation and integration; title: Spectrum of activation and development : youth to maturity : origination to transformation; title: Emancipation and integration; title: Commonwealth to cooperative integrators : worldly-wise Sekem and commonwealth to mondragon as cooperative; title: Organizational to communal integrators : sahyoun and medlabs in Jordan/Adodo and Pax herbals in Nigeria; title: Corporate to societal integrators : Van der Coff in South Africa to Ariyaratne in Sri Lanka; title: Worldwide integrators : eco to civic integrators : Branson and Virgin Group/Johar and impact Hubs; title: Conclusion and transformation; title: Vertical spectrum : creativity and innovation : spectral to integral; title: When spectral meets integral : ancient Egypt to global reach; title: Annex spectral integrator type inventory (SITI).