Are organizations across the globe using the Enneagram differently in 2022 versus how they used it in 2011? Two research projects conducted by the Enneagram in Business Network, one in 2011 and the other in 2022, have the answers to
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What qualities make an excellent leader 2022?
Do you know the answer to this question? Can the Enneagram support contemporary leadership excellence? First, here’s the latest thinking on leadership excellence from four well-respected sources. Vantage Leadership excellence is about self-development, flexibility, employee focus, plus… Being culture creators
The Great Resignation, The Great Exodus, Quiet Quitting
These three 2021-2022 additions to our organizational vocabulary are here to stay. The Great Resignation refers to many people, especially younger employees, resigning from their jobs, often without having another job waiting. This has happened with 4.4 million people per
“Life Reimagined” and the enneagram
Richard Leider, author of “Life Reimagined’ and numerous other books, was the last speaker at the recent Hudson Institute of Coaching’s annual Learning Conference, and he is a clearly polished presenter who manages to keep it real. Writing my last
Why Bea Chestnut’s new enneagram book is likely to become the “go-to” enneagram book worldwide
Over the last 15 years in particular, I’ve developed a sixth sense about what is likely to happen in the Enneagram world. Often, I keep these notions to myself, but then I see them play out on a wide-enough stage
What I love about the EIBN (Enneagram in Business Network)
My work has always been about three things: spreading the Enneagram’s use in organizations around the world; focusing on using the Enneagram for development (both for those who teach it and those who learn it); and doing what I can
Where the Enneagram is Going | Vertical and Horizontal
At the recent IEA (International Enneagram Association) conference in Denver, the IEA asked me to do a video tape for them to put on their website. For the most part, they wanted me to talk about the 2014 IEA conference
You’re Never Too Old … or Too Young for the Enneagram
I just returned from leading a “Coaching with the Enneagram” certificate program in Cincinnati. Not only is it a beautiful city, an Art Deco paradise, but the program itself drew fantastic participants. Mainly the participants were from Cincinnati, where there
Why We Need Claudio Naranjo (Helen Palmer, Don Riso and Others) More Than Ever
Many people have told me that I seem to be (except for Russ Hudson) the most traveling Enneagram teacher. They make comments such as this: Wow, are you tired? You travel more than anyone except maybe Russ. Since I can
State of the Enneagram (as I see it)
In the last few months, my sense of the state of the Enneagram has never been better, so here are some of the reasons for my increasingly optimistic view: The Global Enneagram Spread is Huge The Enneagram seems to be