System 1, System 2, and the Nine Strategies: Blending Insights from Modern Cognitive Psychology with the Enneagram
Daniel Kahneman’s book “Thinking Fast and Slow” has helped popularize the idea that we have two general…
The Beyond Common Sense Program
Everyone thinks they have good critical thinking skills; few people are actually good critical thinkers. Current scientific…
The Instinctual Teams Program
To paraphrase Tolsoy, all effective teams look the same, but all ineffective teams are ineffective in their…
“No One Understands You and What to Do About It”
Managing one’s personal brand is something that many people are uncomfortable with–no one wants to be “that person”…
Post-Mortems and Pre-Mortems–Learning from the Past and Learning from the Future
As 2015 draws to a close and 2016 quickly approaches, it’s a great opportunity to take stock…
A Summary of the Three Instinctual Biases
Instinctual Biases The three Instinctual Biases are focuses of attention or systems of value that help satisfy…
A Leader’s Guide to Why People Think the Way They Do
There is a scene in Clint Eastwood’s movie “In the Line of Fire” where his character, Secret…
About the Enneagram (And How It Can Help You)
By Mario Sikora (At Awareness to Action International, we are the world’s leading innovators in the theory…
Non-Transactional Networking
When I joined the ranks of the self-employed many years ago, I did what all the books…
Personality Assessments–What Can They Tell Us?
Given my use of the Enneagram model of personality styles, a recent article on the Harvard Business…