A groundbreaking book that brings the insights of Integral Theory to business and organizational development.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.Praise for Integral Leadership "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.