enneagram 9 types

1. CHAPTER 1 Leading in the 21st Century .
TEAM Fighting
The Power of Understanding Your Personality

2. The Problem: The Need for Effective Leadership that Can Rise Above Ego
• “go to sleep to” ： as a way of protecting ourselves from the inevitable hurts that
happen to us from the outside world.
• “know thyself” is the secret formula for positive outcomes at work as well as in life.
• self-aware and “emotionally intelligent”—when they can acknowledge their blind
spots and more consciously manage their feelings and reactions, empathize with others,
and navigate social situations with skill and sensitivity.
• becoming aware of our unconscious habits and motives is the first step to growing far
beyond our self-imposed limitations.

3. The Solution: Knowing What Makes a Leader Successful
• The key factors in high-quality leadership are self- awareness and emotional intelligence.

4. Why Are Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence the Most Vital Factors in
Excellent Leadership?
•leaders can operate in one of two ways:
1) they can do the things they do in an unconscious, automatic, and habitual way;
2) they can do the things they do in a conscious, self-aware, more open and creative way.
•Unconscious leaders operate from a narrow focus on doing what feels safe or what has
“worked” before or what protects their identity or self- image.
•Conscious leaders operate from a place of practiced, mindful awareness.
•one of the key traits of a successful leader is the ability to “selectively self- disclose
vulnerability.”

5. Conscious Leadership Equals Successful Leadership:
What It Means to Be a Conscious (vs. Unconscious) Leader
•the most vital element in good leadership is whether a given leader has the ability
to observe and be honest about whether they are acting from a closed-minded,
defensive position—not whether they can sustain superhuman levels of conscious
awareness all the time.

6. How Leaders Can Become More Conscious and Emotionally Intelligent
Using “The Enneagram Model of Personality”
•The Enneagram of personality provides the missing piece—a pathway to greater self-awareness
and social skillfulness that lasts.
All Kinds of Leaders—and People—Can Benefit from This Kind of “Personality Decoder” Tool.

7. Business as Usual: We Are More Unconscious than We Think We Are
• Personality is the “ego” part of ourselves I referred to earlier.
• Personality is the sum total of strategies we develop to help us find ways to calm our
anxieties.
• Personality is a set of interrelated adaptive patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.

8. Being A Better Leader Through Understanding Personality
● The ego--or personality --is not the "bad guy" in the story.
Defensive: we are operating mostly unconsciously to protect ourselves from threats.
● To be a conscious leader—or person—you need to have a clear sense of your programming
and be able to recognize when you get stuck on your personal

9. The Human Personality As OS:
How Knowing The Nine Kinds of Operating Systems Can Help You Be More
Conscious
● “Why does that person always seem overly concerned about following the rules in a way that strikes me as
annoyingly rigid?”
● “Why does this other person seem to want to dominate every conversation and overpower everyone?”
● “Why does that person always seem to have to look on the bright side or lighten things up such that we can
never tackle tough issues?”
● “What is going on when this other person never seems to be able to.”
● “We know about why different people have different thought, feelings, and reactions. different types of
personality styles.”
● “We have open mind about others' habits and world”