Ronnie Lessem: 17 books
Transformation Management
Towards the Integral Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The concept of transformation has long been known to the sciences and has been around in the popular vocabulary for several decades. Because it has never been fully developed as a managed process and applied to our organizations, the way in which we have been trying to deal with the complex issues...
Embodying Integral Development
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In this fourth and final volume of the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, Ronnie Lessem integrates all that has come before in terms of: Community activation; Awakening integral consciousness; and institutionalized Research. Here he focuses on individual and community development alongside...
Integral Development
Realising the Transformative Potential of Individuals, Organisations and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
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 Renewal
A Relational and Renewal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
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....
Integral Economics
Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Why on earth is economics perceived to come in only one or at best two different a-cultural if not a-moral guises? There are real, and many, alternatives to the economic mainstream. The trouble is, of course, that they are hidden from us. In Integral Economics Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer...
Integral Advantage
Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions. Building on the integral heritage of Ronnie Lessem’s...
The Integrators
The Next Evolution in Leadership, Knowledge and Value Creation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
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...
Integral Community
Political Economy to Social Commons
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Integral Community moves the transformation journey for enterprises and society on from the stages covered in earlier books in Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series, which describe a new macro-economic framework and which have examined alternative development with different local communities,...
Integral Research and Innovation
Transforming Enterprise and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
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...
Integral Polity
Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment. A fascinating approach to how we can begin to tackle this challenge is presented by the authors of Integral Polity. Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and...
by Ronnie Lessem
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As mass global and social media communications spread across the globe, we are seeing a need for a change in the way we approach issues of political and economic development. The effects of these growing communications are that, on the one hand, we see the significance of place rising, while on the...
by Ronnie Lessem
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
This stimulating, clearly written and well-structured text is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organisational behaviour, as well as a corrective to the eurocentric bias of most management texts. It develops a trans-cultural perspective which draws on insights from across...
Innovation Driven Institutional Research
Towards Integral Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series. It continues to build on the previous two works, Community Activation and* Awakening Integral Consciousness*, as well as preceding the fourth and final book, Embodying Integral Development. This book serves as a follow-up to...
Integral Dynamics
Political Economy, Cultural Dynamics and the Future of the University
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The theory of integral dynamics is based on the view that the development of individual leaders or entrepreneurs requires the simultaneous development of institutions and societies. It seeks a specific way forward for each society, fundamentally different from, but drawing on, its past. Nearly every...
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