The Phoenix Encounter Method: Lead Like Your Business Is on Fire!

Notes

INTRODUCTION

1. Many leadership development scholars and practitioners describe behavioral characteristics of “alpha,” or “type A,” individuals and note that these personality depicters are common among senior executives (e.g., see Kate Ludeman and Eddie Erlandson, “Coaching the Alpha Male,” Harvard Business Review, May 2004). While there is continuing debate in leadership psychology about the alpha construct, some of the most common characteristics include results, action, or goal orientation; drive; portrayed confidence; unemotional; demanding; and dominant. Although the military language used in the Encounter is alpha-like, we interpret the alpha here as action orientation with curiosity and as what might be called “positive alpha” ...