Ken Wilber

Sex (Masculine v. Feminine)

Tom Goddard — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:14:44 -0500

These posts reference research addressing the role of sex-based types (or stereotypes) in the lives of organizations and the people in those organizations.

States

Tom Goddard — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:41:47 -0500

Behind the hyperlinks listed below, you'll find blogs addressing organizational research that has implications for the "All States" dimension of Integral Theory. Blogs that clearly fit into any one of the states will be found behind the hyperlink bearing that state's name, while blogs that consciously cross state boundaries will be found behind the hyperlink named "Integral".

Types

Tom Goddard — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:40:31 -0500

Behind the hyperlinks listed below, you'll find blogs addressing organizational research that has implications for the "All Types" dimension of Integral Theory. Blogs that clearly fit into any one of the types will be found behind the hyperlink bearing that type's name, while blogs that consciously cross type boundaries will be found behind the hyperlink named "Integral".

Levels

Tom Goddard — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:33:17 -0500

Behind the hyperlinks listed below, you'll find blogs addressing organizational research that has implications for the "All Levels" dimension of Integral Theory. Blogs that clearly fit into any of the levels will be found behind the hyperlink bearing that level's name, while blogs that consciously cross level boundaries will be found behind the hyperlink named "Integral".

Integral (All Quadrants)

Tom Goddard — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:29:55 -0500

These blogs highlight research that point to an integration across quadrant boundaries of the "All-Quadrant" dimension of Integral Theory.

Quadrants

Tom Goddard — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:45:50 -0500

Behind the hyperlinks listed below, you'll find blogs addressing organizational research that has implications for the "All Quadrants" dimension of Integral Theory. Blogs that clearly fit into any of the quadrants will be found behind the hyperlink bearing that quadrant's name, while blogs that consciously cross quadrant boundaries will be found behind the hyperlink named "Integral".

Integral Theory's Four Quadrants Might Make A Good Theory (The Theory of Planned Behavior) Better

Tom Goddard — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:54:33 -0500

I just read an article on promoting health enhancing habits in the workplace by Anshel & Kang in a recent issue of Consulting Psychology Journal. To be frank, this is not the most rigorous of the journals published by the American Psychological Association. Consulting psychologists like myself, I’ve concluded, simply don’t have as much time to dedicate to the refinement of their work. Also, to be frank, a number of the articles seem to be limited to n=1 case studies of the authors’ experience with a single organization. That being said, there is a real-world quality to some of the articles that is missing from the more purely academic, higher-quality journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology.

So I read it. And learn.

What was particularly interesting to me about this one was that the authors sought to influence members of a target audience (employees) to change their behaviors so that they can be both more effective at their jobs and healthier. When doing my doctoral dissertation, I decided to use, as my organizing model for influencing decision-making, Fishbein & Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB).

AQAL Journal Live Discussion on Healthcare, with Ken Wilber and Tom Goddard

Tom Goddard — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:35:40 -0400

Start: 11/03/2007 - 3:00pm

End: 11/03/2007 - 4:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

On Saturday, November 3, at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, The Integral Company's founder Tom Goddard will join Ken in taking questions from fellow Integral Institute members in a discussion of Integral Healthcare. Dr. Goddard is the author of "Integral Healthcare Management" in the first volume of the AQAL Journal.

Which Ken Wilber Book Should I Read First?

Tom Goddard — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:55:52 -0400

Ken Wilber

This morning I received an email from a friend who asked a question I've been asked countless times before, "which Ken Wilber book should I read first?"

The question itself is interesting, and I'll get to that in a minute, but I first want to tackle the question, "why is this question asked so often?" Part of it is the sheer volume of Ken's work -- two dozen books and counting, plus a gazillion online essays, gobs of Integral Naked interviews, and more forewards to books than Tom Peters. And now that he's got a blog -- yikes!

It's a pretty important question for those of us who enjoy Ken's work and want to share it with friends. Very few of my buddies, as brainy as many of them are, should start with Ken's magnum opus, Sex, Ecology, Spiritualty ("SES"). Five hundred pages of prose pluse another 300 of endnotes? Nah. That's something to work up to.

I started with Spectrum of Consciousness, his first. Not an illogical place to start, particularly when I did so many years ago, but his worldview has morphed, by his own reckoning, 4 times since, so it's not longer representative of his best thinking.

Much of his work is deliberately narrow-band -- an explanation of the application of his thinking to a specific set of questions. Integral Psychology, The Marriage of Sense and Soul, and Quantum Questions are all such books. Good reads, all, but not a great place to start, in my view.

When visiting Ken in his Denver loft a couple of years ago, I posed the question to him. His suggestion was "A Brief History of Everything." That has been mine, too, since first reading it in 1996. A casually-written summary of SES, in interview format, with nary an endnote in sight, it nonetheless presents a detailed and coherent description of SES's sweeping presentation of Integral Theory. It also has some pretty lovely writing in it (my favorite being on pp. 38-39).