Der Autor prasentiert theoretisch fundiert eine systematische Aufarbeitung von explorativen Interviews mit erfolgreichen deutschen und schweizer Top-Fuhrungskraften. Es gelingt ihm, ein realistisches und praxisbezogenes Bild von der Struktur und Wirkung der Personlichkeit oberster Fuhrungskrafte zu entwerfen. Der Autor zeigt, dass die Systematisierung dieser Erfahrungen Fuhrungskraften aller Managementebenen ermoglicht, ihr personliches Entwicklungsprofil kritisch zu uberdenken und Ansatze fur die eigene Entwicklung zu identifizieren.
Verzeichnis: A. Schieffer entwirft ein realistisches...

The core question underlying Integral Research and Innovation is: 'How can social research be turned into social or indeed "integral" innovation?' Complementing their acclaimed Transformation Management, this second book in the Transformation and Innovation Series explains how the knowledge creation that underpins transformative processes occurs. The authors show how research has to be transformative, rather than just informative if it is to contribute usefully to building integrated and sustainable enterprises. At a time when business practitioners and others responsible for organizational...

Alexander Schieffer and Ronnie Lessem introduce a groundbreaking 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. The integral approach has been researched and framed over decades of in-depth experience in transformative development education and practice all over the world. It uniquely...

In 2010 Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer published their seminal work on Integral Research and Innovation, whereby they identified the four R s; relational and renewal, reason and realization based research paths that altogether encompass the major qualitative research methods and methodologies. Within each path they identified a trajectory from origination to transformation via foundation and emancipation. However these paths, underlying the research process, conventionally termed 'method', were disconnected from the integral economic and enterprise content, conventionally termed...