To many, “Vengeance,” the mental habit of Eights, sounds like a very negative word. Revenge, vengefulness, and vengeance connote doing harm to others or “primitive justice.” “An eye for an eye” is what we think of with the word vengeance.
Transformational leaders | type 7 – from planning to work
Sevens in general have robust, fast moving, energetic minds, a mind I often refer to as a computer screen that has no file folders, just an increasingly vast amount of documents of ideas, facts and opinions that they so easily
In Memoriam | Jay Galbraith (1939-2014)
Most Enneagrammers will not recognize Jay’s name, though most OD (organization development) professionals who have been in the field for 20+ years will instantly remember Jay’s massive contributions, particularly in the area of organization design, strategy and structure. He influenced
Transformational leaders | type 6 – from cowardice to faith
Six leaders, even counter-phobic Sixes, engage in cowardice, which are thoughts of doubt and worry that cause them to second guess themselves and create multiple alternative scenarios. Some Sixes do this so quickly, they hardly notice it; some call this
Transformational leaders | type 5 – from stinginess to omniscience
When Enneagram Five leaders become transformational ones, they must move from stinginess – a scarcity paradigm that leads to an insatiable thirst for knowledge; reluctance to share such things as knowledge, time, space and personal information; and to strategizing about
The Bachelor | an enneagram perspective
What does the US TV show The Bachelor have to do with the Enneagram? Like all reality TV shows, the Bachelor is contrived and structured for impact, yet behind the veil there are real people doing somewhat real things. And
Living with a social subtype 7
No one in my immediate family is a 7. There are 6s, 5s, 2s, 4s, 9s, 3s, 8s, and 1s. So it is not an Enneagram type I know up close and personal. At the same time, I’ve had an
What type of cookie are you?
Loving cookies as I do, I was enamored of an article that suggests that our preferences in cookies say something about our personality. In reading the personality descriptions, mouth watering, it occurred to me that the cookies fall right into
Valentine’s Day | expressions of love
Every Valentine’s Day, I write a love blog. This year, I decided to tackle this fundamental question – What is love? – and to link it to the Enneagram in some way. In trying to figure out how to address
Chris Christie | don’t mix chess with checkers
Right after Bridgegate broke, I wrote a blog about Chris Christie as a type Eight leader, describing how it was highly unlikely that he did not know about the traffic problems caused by the lane closures on the George Washington