In Part 3 of “The Leadership of Letting Go” I touched on the role of trust in leadership. People want to be able to trust, and be trusted by, their leaders. This demands that leaders be authentic. One roadblock on the road to authenticity is that what we say may not match what we really [...]
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Twitter Goes Enneagram Teachers’ Weekend, Part 3
You may need to read Part 0 of this series to make sense of what follows.
The morning began with an hour of meditation, followed by a repetitive question.
cj76530: Repetitive question for all #enneagram Types: what does development mean for you?
Repetitive Question is an excellent instrument [...]
Twitter goes Enneagram Teachers Weekend, Part 2
You may need to read Parts 0 and 1 of this series to make some sense of what follows.
As ever, at such events, the side conversations are the best; especially the misunderstandings. I had so much fun discussing different approaches to leadership development after lunch that I missed out on the Gurdjieff Movements hour. Oh, [...]
Twitter goes German Enneagram Teachers’ Weekend, Part 1
You may need to read Part 0 of this series to make some sense of what follows.
The context for all the comments is that people were discussing about how they have developed and matured over the years: what was helpful, what was more challenging. Although the focus was not on professional life, there’s still a [...]
Twitter goes German Enneagram Teacher’ Weekend, Part 0
I’m just back from the Spring meeting of the annual German Enneagram Teachers in the Narrative Tradition (the mouthful shortens to E-MT in German, thank goodness!). It’s always to good to catch up with old friends and catch some relaxed learning at the same time. One of the specialties of this approach to the Enneagram [...]
An interview with Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis published a highly readable article on Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership in the Harvard Business Review last September. Their work on emotional intelligence brought them fame and they developed their Primal Leadership model based on that. The recent breakthroughs in neuroscience improve our understanding of what happens in [...]
InterPM 2008
The dust has settled on this year’s InterPM conference on Innovation through Project Management, where Klaus Wagenhals and I (representing metisLeadership) held the Open Space at the conference.
We also facilitated an interdisciplinary warm-up workshop in which participants experienced the different perspectives on innovation that different professions hold. Of 80 participants, only four had a sociology [...]
