I'm working on my master thesis little by little. I think the following post is difficult to understand in places, because I show my sentences neglecting the contexts...
The purpose of understanding the types of leaders is to grasp the pattern of their thinking, emotions, behaviors, actions, interpersonal relationships, and so on. Each person has a unique type, so he or she thinks, acts, behaves, and communicates with others in the different manner in accordance with each type.
All types are seen in all four quadrants (see table XX in the appendices), but this paper refers to only the Upper Left quadrant of personality types utilizing the wisdom of the Enneagram in order to avoid the complex analysis. Also, the following analysis indicates not only characteristics of each type of leadership but also the conditions of healthy and unhealthy leaders in each type.
Although the wisdom of the Enneagram is so useful to categorize each leader into each type, we need to use it carefully in the following two points. First, human beings are not simple so that we can classify people into one category. Second, we may need to pay attention to the difference between the level of consciousness and the Enneagram types. As, Esbjörn-Hargens (2010) points out, the former is vertical and the latter is horizontal. Therefore, it is important to recognize that we, human beings are complex creatures mixed with various types within us and the difference between stages of consciousness and types.
