Ginger Lapid-Bogda’s The Enneagram in Business portal contains an “Ask the Coach” feature, where a coach of each Type answers the same question about coaching, to give a flavor of the different possible perspectives. Ginger asked me to be the Type 9 – or Peacemaker – representative on this panel. Here’s my answer to the…
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The Leadership of Letting Go, Part 4
Leadership is about taking decisions, especially good ones. At the same time, if we are attached to the outcome, then the quality of our decision-making can suffer. In his book Awareness, Anthony De Mello tells of a saying from the Chinese philosopher Tranxu: “When the archer shoots for no particular prize, he has all his…
Leadership and the Iraqi Question
In leadership development programs I run, I am often asked how I rate President George W. Bush. An article by John J. McSheffrey in this weekend’s International Herald Tribune, describing his response to being on a plane carrying a military coffin, provides an example of why his style is not one I would want to…
