ABSTRACT
What does the journey we have taken in this book tell us about leadership as meaning-making or the hero's journey or how to live a good life? It has certainly explored ideas that are not taught in the business schools. After introducing the hero's journey, we looked at the worlds of perception that we, as hero, elect to explore, gathering the experience that will bring us towards maturity and wholeness. We looked at the universal pattern of the enneagram, the hidden pattern of our acts in the real world, which, it appears, is a microcosm of the hero's journey. We paid special attention to the triad of Skill, Capacity, and Intent that manifests the state of our inner development through our acts in the world ‘out there,’ where it shows up as Operations, Leadership, and Strategy. We followed this by looking at how the patterns of our thinking enable us to make meaning. Especially we considered how the narrative form of Ring Composition may be not merely a story-telling formula, but a reflection of how narratives naturally originate. It suggests that the enneagram is not an invented framework, but a discovery of the natural pattern that makes what is meaningful. When we learn to use Ring Composition, we employ our most subtle perceptions to tune into faint signals we can amplify and realise.
