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 [...]
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Ask the Enneagram Coach, Part 2
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 [...]
Ask the Coach, Part 1
Ginger Lapid-Bogda recently launched The Enneagram in Business portal. The learning portal is part of this great resource, with great contributors such as Jerry Wagner (describing the Types or Styles in detail) and Bea Chestnut (on the Sub-types). There’s also an “Ask the Coach” feature, where a coach of each Type answers the same question [...]
Recognising the importance of context
Most leadership books suffer from the problem that the seem to presuppose that leadership is about developing and using certain qualities (which ignores personality) that are universally valid (which ignores context). Russ Palmer, who has been CEO in three different environments, discusses the importance of context in a podcast interview on the Knowledge @ [...]
When Google offers too much of a good thing
Knowledge@Wharton has brought an English-based network of knowledge communities to my attention, knuru, that offers a natural language search engine, mainly for business topics. The search returns two lists on tabbed pages: the first from the Knowledge@Wharton archives, the second from news sources. This is useful for those searches where Google’s lack of context awareness [...]
Slow Leadership
A great resource I’ve come across, thanks to registering at technorati, is the leadership blog slow leadership. The approach is inspired by slow food and the approach fits beautifully to sculpting. Here’s some useful information on stress from this weekend’s entry.
What is your tree?
Julia Butterfly Hill spent two years living in a thousand year-old tree in the States, protecting it from being cut down. Her question to all of us is, “what is your tree?”. This isn’t a call to tree-hugging, but rather a call to think about what difference you can make in this world. Another take [...]
Helpful resource from HBR
Harvard Business Review joined the podcasting bandwagon a few months ago, for which I received my first advert only today. They offer a free biweekly HBRIdeaCast, a 20-minute program comprising an interview with an author of a current HBR article or book, as well as a leadership tip. The current interview is with Anthony Mayo, [...]
