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Instinctual Leadership – how your personality influences your ability to lead and manage in the sports arena.
by Mario Fernandez and Mario Sikora Phrases such as “I just don’t think they understand me”, “this seems to always happen” or “how can I get players to be motivated?” capture the sentiment echoed so frequently by coaches around the world. And this is not exclusive to...
Decision-Making Tools: Some Additions To Your Toolkit
By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). The ATA Questionnaire The ATA...
Understanding Logical Fallacies
By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). Learning to recognize logical...
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Our Instinctual Biases: Three Patterns of Attention and Values and How They Shape the Way We Work
By Mario Sikora This article is a brief description of the three instinctual biases of the Awareness to Action Enneagram. For more information, visit us at http://www.awarenesstoaction.com or read my book, “Instinctual Leadership.” We humans are complicated creatures living...
Argument Amongst Friends
The tone was pleasant enough, but the words fascinated me: "I started reading your Enneagram Journal article today but became so frustrated after a few pages that I tossed it on the bed and had to go out for a walk and a swim." We were talking at a cocktail party and...
Thoughts on Steve Jobs’ Ennea-type
Assessing other people's Ennea-types is tricky business, and the only thing more problematic than ennea-typing public figures is not doing so. Let me explain: First, it is best if people identify their own type. ...
Critical Thinking
Decision-Making Tools: Some Additions To Your Toolkit
By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). The ATA Questionnaire The ATA...
Understanding Logical Fallacies
By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). Learning to recognize logical...
Dealing with Misinformation: Fake News, Social Media, and the ”Post-Truth” World
By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). Fake news and distorted truths...
Emotional Intelligence / Self Awareness
The Conducting Mind
The is part of an ongoing series of articles on the qualities of the mind and mindfulness. For the others, visit us at the Awareness to Action Blog Growing up in suburban Philadephia, I had the opportunity to see two of the greatest-ever orchestra conductors, Eugene...
The Discerning Mind
This is part six in a series on the qualities of the mind. The first four qualities of the mind we discussed were focused on being attentive and receptive, cultivating an attitude of openness and acceptance. The Discerning Mind, however, is about winnowing, evaluating...
The Fluid Mind
Sometimes our minds feel like a sieve. Things go in one ear and out the other, we walk into a room and forget why, or we go to the store and come back without the main thing we went for (my wife could tell you stories…). This is usually due to a lack of attention, a...
Leadership
Common Cognitive Biases
Part of an ongoing series on Clear-Thinking Skills. This articles excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking,” which is available in paperback and e-book via amazon.com. To really understand the challenges of our built...
Built-in Biases, Continued: Two Systems of the Brain, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Confirmation Bias
Part of an ongoing series on Clear-Thinking Skills. These articles excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking,” which is available in paperback and e-book via amazon.com. Two Systems of the Brain Daniel Kahneman’s book...
The First Obstacle to Clear Thinking: Our Built-in Biases
Part of an ongoing series on Clear-Thinking Skills. This articles excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking,” which is available in paperback and e-book via amazon.com. There are many factors that lead to our inability...