Alexander Schieffer, Ronnie Lessem

Integral Development (eBook, ePUB)

Realising the Transformative Potential of Individuals, Organisations and Societies

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Produktbeschreibung

Schieffer and Lessem introduce a ground-breaking development framework and process to address the most burning issues that humanity faces. While conventional top-down, outside-in development has reached a cul-de-sac, a new, integral form of development is emerging around the world. Integral Development uniquely articulates this emergent approach, and invites us to fully participate in this process. Integral Development combines four mutually reinforcing perspectives: nature and community; culture and spirituality; science, systems and technology; and enterprise and economics. Conventional development theory and practice has prioritized the latter two perspectives, neglecting the former two. This has caused massive imbalances in today's world. Integral Development shows how individual, organizational and societal developments need to be interconnected to overcome these imbalances and to release a society's full potential. It shifts the responsibility for large-scale development from often-distant development experts and organizations to each individual, community, enterprise and institution within the society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317115625
• Artikelnr.: 45098714

Autorenporträt

Alexander Schieffer co-founded, with Ronnie Lessem, TRANS4M Center for Integral Development (Geneva), designed to (r)evolutionize education, research and development. Trans4m's cutting edge programs provide innovative culture-specific responses to burning socio-economic issues. Born in Germany, Schieffer got his PHD from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he lectures in International Development. Formerly, he was CEO of First Asia Publishing (Singapore), Founder of CELL Center of Excellence for Leadership and Learning (Munich), an internal Management Consultant with the Bertelsmann Group (London) and worked in Investment Banking (Frankfurt). Ronnie Lessem was born in Zimbabwe of central European parentage, and graduated from Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics. He has written some 30 books, the last six together with Alexander Schieffer, on self, organizational and societal development from a transcultural, transformational perspective. He has also been an international management consultant in Europe and America, India and Africa for three decades.

Inhaltsangabe

I: Divided World: The Need for Renewing Human Development; 1: Development -
Quo Vadis?: Turning Point in Human Development; 2: Looking Back and Current
Trends: A Critical Review of Human Development; 3: Deconstruction -
Reconstruction: Steps towards Renewing Human Development; II: Integral
Worlds: A New Integral Perspective on Human Development; 4: The Integral
Perspective: Holistically Renewing Development; 5: A New Approach: The
Integral Development Framework; 6: Compass and Map: The Integral
Development Journey; III: The Southern Realm of Integral Development:
Restoring Life in Nature and Community; 7: Know Your Self and Your Context:
A Southern Individual Perspective; 8: The Ecosystemic Organisation: A
Southern Organisational Perspective; 9: Embeddedness in Society: A Southern
Societal Perspective; 10: Southern Integration via a Communiversity: The
Cases of Chinyika and First Peoples Worldwide; IV: The Eastern Realm of
Integral Development: Regenerating Meaning via Culture and Spirituality;
11: The Journey of the Self: An Eastern Individual Perspective; 12:
Organisational Co-Evolution: An Eastern Organisational Perspective; 13:
Evolutionary Stages in Society: An Eastern Societal Perspective; 14:
Eastern Integration via a Developmental University: The Cases of Sarvodaya,
Om Creations and Aravind; V: The Northern Realm of Integral Development:
Reframing Knowledge via Science, Systems and Technology; 15:
Transdisciplinary Learning and Research: A Northern Individual Perspective;
16: Organisational Knowledge Creation: A Northern Organisational
Perspective; 17: The Knowledge and Network Society: A Northern Societal
Perspective; 18: Northern Integration via a Renewed Research University:
The Cases of Mondragon and a Future University for Africa; VI: The Western
Realm of Integral Development: Rebuilding Infrastructure and Institutions
via Enterprise and Economics; 19: The Full Life: A Western Individual
Perspective; 20: Enterprise as a Force for Good: A Western Organisational
Perspective; 21: Societal Wealth and Well-being: A Western Societal
Perspective; 22: Western Integration via a University of Life: The Cases of
Interface, TIGE and Global Creative Experimentation; VII: Unity in
Diversity: Fully actualising Integral Development via the Integral
University; 23: We Have Come a Long Way!: Reviewing the Integral
Development Journey; 24: Integral University Pioneer: Sekem and Heliopolis
University for Sustainable Development; 25: Co-Creating the Integral
University: Fully Realising the Transformative Potential of Individuals,
Organisations and Societies