Ancient symbols enter the modern boardroom

How a nine-pointed figure born from Sufi contemplation, Gurdjieff's teachings, and a Bolivian-born teacher's Arica school found its way into executive coaching, leadership retreats, and organizational development programs around the world.

The Symbol Before the System Long before the Enneagram appeared in corporate retreat brochures or leadership coaching curricula, it was a geometric figure whispered about in Sufi lodges, contemplated by Christian mystics in desert monasteries, and carried westward by an Armenian-Greek teacher who believed most humans were walking through life asleep. The nine-pointed symbol had already survived centuries of reinvention before anyone attached nine distinct personality types to its points. This is the story of that...