Ronnie Lessem was born in Zimbabwe of central European parentage, and graduated from Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics. He has written some 30 books, the last six together with Alexander Schieffer, on self, organizational and societal development from a transcultural, transformational perspective. He has also been an international management consultant in Europe and America, India and Africa for three decades.

’The author of Integral Advantage manages to facilitate a pathway of appreciation and reason into the complex cosmology surrounding the development of emerging societies within our universe. It also gives a voice to a reality often silent and unrepresented within our global landscape...’ Bennie Anderson, CEO of Da Vinci Institute, South Africa ’This remarkable book written by Professor Lessem underlies future hope for the sustainable integral society, exploring the emotional truth of social innovation. He re-visits the modern economic concept of the BRICS, transforming it into the ecology of holistic philosophy, re-framing it into the GENE-ius that characterizes the Trans4m Centre for Integral Development in Geneva, and finding unique cultural, social, economic and spiritual paradigms of Brazil, the Russia which I have known so well, India, China and South Africa, reflecting systematic and effective ways of integral advantage, giving birth to new perspectives for the local-global reach.’ J. Lapidus, Business strategist of Zerno Consulting, Latvia - South Africa ’Ronnie Lessem’s insights into the very soul and soil of India provide a rich and fertile ground for an integral model of development; not just for the renewal of Indian society but for the advantage of the world at large.’ Sudhanshu Palsule, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India ’One of the most critical aspects of our times is to find the references that will guide our transition toward a more sustainable and humane civilization. Ronnie Lessem provides such a guidance by offering new examplars and frameworks, inspiring questions that deepen our Brazilian inquiry.’ Thais Corral, social innovator, founder of Sinal do Vale and Adapta Sertao ’The author has successfully articulated the complicated individual and social systems of the Chinese. An understanding of the Chinese conceptualization of Egocentricism, Xiaokang and Chinese Pragmatism is very ne

• Part I. Orientation: The internet is not the answer: fields, factories and workshops to networked economy 1.Emerging markets and societies: north-western conventional economic wisdom; Towards integral advantage: integral realities and rhythmsPart II. An East-West Russian Integral Perspective: Mutual aid to earth manifesto: grounding in Russian nature and community2. Cosmism to anthropoecology: grounding to Russian emergence through culture and spirituality3. Anthropoecology to the world as household - Russian navigation: philosophy of economy as social science4. Portrait of a Russian province: Nizhnii Novgorod Zemstvo effect. Part III. North-South African Integral Perspective: Wild law to earth jurisprudence: grounding Southern Africa in local nature and community5. Future primal and the truth quest: emerging through local-global culture and consciousness6. Truth and reconciliation: navigating towards freedom; Ubuntu to value sharing: transformative healing effect - out of the divine will of Africa. Part IV. Circumnavigating BRICS: India, China, Brazil: Integral India: south-east - swadeshi to sarvodaya7. Integral China: north-east - chaxugeju to guanxi; Integral Brazil: south-west - eco-services to free trade re-imagined8. Reconstituting the BRICS: comparative to integral advantage.

Ronnie Lessem was born in Zimbabwe of central European parentage, and graduated from Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics. He has written some 30 books, the last six together with Alexander Schieffer, on self, organizational and societal development from a transcultural, transformational perspective. He has also been an international management consultant in Europe and America, India and Africa for three decades.

’The author of Integral Advantage manages to facilitate a pathway of appreciation and reason into the complex cosmology surrounding the development of emerging societies within our universe. It also gives a voice to a reality often silent and unrepresented within our global landscape...’ Bennie Anderson, CEO of Da Vinci Institute, South Africa ’This remarkable book written by Professor Lessem underlies future hope for the sustainable integral society, exploring the emotional truth of social innovation. He re-visits the modern economic concept of the BRICS, transforming it into the ecology of holistic philosophy, re-framing it into the GENE-ius that characterizes the Trans4m Centre for Integral Development in Geneva, and finding unique cultural, social, economic and spiritual paradigms of Brazil, the Russia which I have known so well, India, China and South Africa, reflecting systematic and effective ways of integral advantage, giving birth to new perspectives for the local-global reach.’ J. Lapidus, Business strategist of Zerno Consulting, Latvia - South Africa ’Ronnie Lessem’s insights into the very soul and soil of India provide a rich and fertile ground for an integral model of development; not just for the renewal of Indian society but for the advantage of the world at large.’ Sudhanshu Palsule, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India ’One of the most critical aspects of our times is to find the references that will guide our transition toward a more sustainable and humane civilization. Ronnie Lessem provides such a guidance by offering new examplars and frameworks, inspiring questions that deepen our Brazilian inquiry.’ Thais Corral, social innovator, founder of Sinal do Vale and Adapta Sertao ’The author has successfully articulated the complicated individual and social systems of the Chinese. An understanding of the Chinese conceptualization of Egocentricism, Xiaokang and Chinese Pragmatism is very ne

• Part I. Orientation: The internet is not the answer: fields, factories and workshops to networked economy 1.Emerging markets and societies: north-western conventional economic wisdom; Towards integral advantage: integral realities and rhythmsPart II. An East-West Russian Integral Perspective: Mutual aid to earth manifesto: grounding in Russian nature and community2. Cosmism to anthropoecology: grounding to Russian emergence through culture and spirituality3. Anthropoecology to the world as household - Russian navigation: philosophy of economy as social science4. Portrait of a Russian province: Nizhnii Novgorod Zemstvo effect. Part III. North-South African Integral Perspective: Wild law to earth jurisprudence: grounding Southern Africa in local nature and community5. Future primal and the truth quest: emerging through local-global culture and consciousness6. Truth and reconciliation: navigating towards freedom; Ubuntu to value sharing: transformative healing effect - out of the divine will of Africa. Part IV. Circumnavigating BRICS: India, China, Brazil: Integral India: south-east - swadeshi to sarvodaya7. Integral China: north-east - chaxugeju to guanxi; Integral Brazil: south-west - eco-services to free trade re-imagined8. Reconstituting the BRICS: comparative to integral advantage.