Hostage at the Table

Loving the book by George Kohlrieser "hostage at the table". A former hostage negotiator he takes this as a metaphor for leadership in all kinds of organisational and leadership contexts. Learning to relate with a hostage taker turns out to be one of life's great lessons in getting people to find perspective, become effective and deliver results...so get on out there and get yourself taken hostage for some excellent leadership development. The key things so far include keeping a positive "mind's eye", the bonding cycle, the need for stables bases and conflict management. Understanding how to connect with people and then how to connect them with your organisation and its objectives is headlined by the idea of the "bonding cycle" and it is such a great chapter. It has great synergies with the ideas in tribal leadership (Dave Logan) of how we can help upgrade culture person by person.