Books by Ronnie Lessem

In this book, the authors illustrate, with reference to a wide range of cases, how the transformation of work - based in Western dominant models of capitalist wage-labor - is taking place in particular parts of each of the four worlds.

Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation is a radical departure from the commonly held belief that neo-liberal economics from the US and the West is universal, and is the only solution to underdevelopment and poverty throughout the world. Instead, the book teases out and theorises the intellectually rutted terrain of development studies, and neo-liberal economics from a decolonial Pan-Africanist perspective. Following a path of social innovation, with perspectives drawn from social anthropology, economics, and business and management studies Nhakanomics is a unique socio-economic approach applicable in the Global South and in Southern Africa in particular. The study argues that the process and substance of nhakanomics with its pre-emphasis on the relational South provides a robust and holistic approach to social innovation and social transformation grounded in relational networks and 'meshworks'. The central idea is a call to re-GENE-rate society, through local Grounding and Origination, and tapping into local-global Emergent Foundations via a newly global Emancipatory Navigation, while ultimately culminating in global-local transformative Effects in four recursive cycles of re-GENE-rating C(K)umusha, Culture, Communication, and Capital after re-Constituting Africa-the 5Cs. With a novel and radical approach the book is an interrogation of neo-liberal economics in the Global South. As such, this book is remarkably handy to students and practitioners in the fields of economics, development studies, political science, science and technology studies, business management, sociology, transformation studies, and development related non-Governmental Organisations working with grassroots communities.

DESCRIPTIONAcross the world, we are facing a crisis in education at all levels: for some communities, schooling remains inaccessible, and for others, educational institutions have become elite qualification factories.What kind of knowledge do we need to survive in the present century and next? Do the current modes of knowledge creation and application address the challenges of the 21st century? How do we bridge the dichotomy between being and knowing, research and innovation, theory and practice?In The Idea of the Communiversity, the authors propose a new approach to the economic, social, technological, educational and moral transformation of society. This book takes an integral world's approach to societal transformation, by pointing to ways in which we can reform our modes of knowledge creation. Through the fourfold model of community, pilgrimium, academy and co-laboratory, Lessem, Adodo and Bradley-all intellectual and grassroots activists-have re-conceptualised a university for every people and culture, centred on the need to think local and act global. We have seen the eras of post-colonialism and decoloniality. This book ushers us into a new one-that of the Communiversity.

This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series. It continues to build on from the previous two works on Community Activation, Awakening Integral Consciousness, as well as preceding the fourth and final book on Embodying Integral Development. This book serves as a follow up to the author's approach to integral research and development, economics and enterprise, contained within the Innovation and Transformation series, and as a focus for how put all of such "CARE-fully" to work.

The concept of transformation has long been known to the sciences and has been around in the popular vocabulary for several decades. This title provides leaders, students of leadership, managers and change agents with a trans-culturally tested, integrated approach to leadership and management.

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.

Paves the way for a sustainable approach to economics, building on the diverse economic approaches from all over the globe. This title introduces the most evolved economic perspectives, bringing them into creative dialogue to produce an integral, dynamically balanced approach.

How can social research be turned into social or indeed 'integral' innovation? This book explains how the knowledge creation that underpins transformative processes occurs. It shows how research has to be transformative, rather than just informative if it is to contribute usefully to building integrated and sustainable enterprises.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organisational behaviour. It develops a trans-cultural perspective which draws on insights from across the world to examine different management styles.