1st Edition

Integral Ubuntu Leadership

By Passmore Musungwa Matupire Copyright 2017
    180 Pages
    by Routledge

    180 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    The four worlds as we know them today, the North, West, South and East, are out of balance. The West and the North generally dominate on a global scale while the South and the East lag behind. This also happens at individual, societal and organisational levels. It is clear that there is a need to change the way we lead our organisations in business and the way we think about leading in politics. Here is a comprehensive exploration of the Integral Leadership challenges of the twenty-first century.





    The author combines the African philosophy of Ubuntu or humanness, the cornerstone of African thought and life, with the concept of Integral Leadership, with particular reference to Lessem and Schieffer’s combining, in their 2010 book Integral Research and Innovation, of nature and community, culture and spirituality, science and technology, and politics and economies. This connectedness in the new paradigm of wholeness and relatedness goes beyond the relationships of human beings alone and involves experiences with nature and community.





    Leadership is viewed from an indigenous and exogenous perspective, bringing together a newly Integral approach, which will also introduce industry ecology and knowledge ecology as an evolution of the Ubuntu philosophy. The author offers a unique forum through which to commit to paper the operationalisation of the Integral Ubuntu Leadership model in catalysing development efforts and in CARE-ing for communities and societies.

    Part 1: Introduction  Chapter1. An introduction to Integral Ubuntu leadership: Utungamiriri Uzere  Part 2: The Call: Equipped for leadership calling  Chapter 2. Energised from birth to embark on the leadership journey  Chapter 3. Leadership: A burning issue of our time  Part 3: The Context: Uncovering Imbalances in a world on fire  Chapter 4. Uncovering Imbalances and creating dynamic balances at the individual level-Inner Calling  Chapter 5. Uncovering Imbalances and creating dynamic balances at the organizational and societal levels-Outer Calling. Part 4: Co-Creation: Towards Integral Ubuntu leadership  Chapter 6. Navigation: Inner Calling-Serving to developing new liberating integral content  Chapter 7.  Navigation: Outer Calling-Serving to developing new liberating integral content  Part 5: Contribution: Integral Ubuntu leadership: Utungamiriri uzere  Chapter 8. Contribution: Inner Calling  Chapter 9. Contribution: Collective Transformation  Part 6: Wrapping up the Journey  Chapter 10. Conclusion: Practical actualization of the 4Cs and CARE rhythms.

    Biography

    Passmore Musungwa Matupire PhD is the Managing Director of Kairos Leadership Institute, a leadership development organisation that he owns and runs in Zimbabwe. He is also a founder Trustee of the Pundutso Centre for Integral Development (Zimbabwe), an Integral development and collaborating partner of Trans4M. He plays a lead role in Zimbabwe, together with Pundutso, in advancing innovation-driven institutionalised research. He sits on several private and public company boards.



    The series editors, Professors Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer, are co-founders of Trans4m (Geneva), and faculty members of the Da Vinci Institute in South Africa. They are educators and researchers, around the world, international management consultants and authors, having written some 25 previous books between them.