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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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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. ...
Thinking Like a Leader
Like many symbols, the Enneagram makes convenient scaffolding for intellectual constructs. Attempts to create memorable and useful maps and models are often enhanced by a visual pattern. They help the learning process because easily remembered logical patterns help...
Critical Thinking
Other Obstacles to Our Thinking (Part 2)
By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series on Clear-Thinking Skills. These articles are 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. Here we continue with some...
Other Obstacles to Our Thinking
By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series on Clear-Thinking Skills. These articles are 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. In addition to the cognitive...
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...
Emotional Intelligence / Self Awareness
Problems vs. Conditions
In life, there are problems and there are conditions, and they are not the same thing. Here is an example of what I mean: My 16-year old son is 6’3” with an excellent vertical leap. He plays on a local club basketball team and, being the tallest player on his team and...
Leadership Presence and the Art of Letting Things Come and Letting Things Go
I’m often asked to work with leaders to help them improve “leadership presence,” which is usually a catch-all phrase for intangible qualities of leadership that range from polishing their physical appearance to developing confidence to learning to be more...
The Core Qualities and Accelerators: Finding the “Heart” of the Enneagram
This post is an excerpt from “The Notes and the Melody: An Introduction to the Awareness to Action Approach to the Enneagram,” by Mario Sikora. The book can be obtained here. The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever;...
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The Focused Mind
The second of six qualities of the mind that we focus on at Awareness to Action International. It is the third in a series of articles. Click here for the introduction, and here for part two. We are creatures wired to pay attention to novelty and subtle changes...
Beginner’s Mind: The First Quality of the Mind
My last article (read the article here) introduced the six qualities of the mind that we teach at Awareness to Action International. This article is the second in a series. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”...
What Does It Mean to Be Mindful?
Mindfulness is a very popular topic in organizations these days. Many companies offer courses in mindfulness and tout its benefits—relaxation, improved focus, better performance. But the concept of mindfulness can be uncomfortable for some people because it brings to...