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WHERE AM I GOING? (PURPOSE AND MOTIVATION)
FIGURE 4.1 Types of Individual Purposes or Motivation
Focus on Relationships
Focus on Accomplishment 2 Achievement 4 Empowerment
3 Connection
1 Insight
We will come back to these leadership agendas later; first
let’s examine the four categories they are built on in more
detail.
Two dimensions characterize these categories: a low
or high focus on accomplishment and a low or high focus
on relationships with people. The resulting four categories
are independent, so an individual can ultimately be low or
high in each of the four categories independent of the oth-
ers. Every category also embodies opportunities for either
abundant, meaningful living or self-serving, unfulfilling
existence. These four categories apply as much in Mumbai
as they do in Paris or Sao Paolo. Let’s flesh out these four
categories.
1. Insight
On the bottom left is insight. This category represents low
interest in either external accomplishment or relationships
with other people, but potentially high interest in self-
awareness, the life of the mind, the world of ideas, or personal
experience for its own sake. We might think of a monk medi-
tating quietly in a cave, a camper enjoying a mountain hike,
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