By introducing tools, tips, self-assessments, graphs and charts, "Intelligent Leadership" helps readers align their signature talents to build into effective leadership strengths.
Author John Mattone promises, "The book will guide you in specific ways on how to strengthen your inner core character, values, beliefs, thoughts, and emotions so as to achieve all you are capable of achieving as a leader and as a person."
Mattone expands the Enneagram into "The Map of Leadership Maturity" to distinguish among the nine distinct leadership traits. Although everyone exhibits an inner core and behavioral tendencies primarily associated with one predominant trait, everyone also demonstrates, to a lesser degree, an inner core and behaviors associated with the other traits.
The exact origins of the Enneagram remain unknown. Some trace its origins to Babylon in 2500 BC. The word itself comes from the Greek words ennea, meaning "nine" and gram, meaning "something written or drawn." Each of the nine points on the Enneagram corresponds to a distinct way of thinking, feeling and behaving. Thus, people at different points on the Enneagram view the world and interact with it differently. The Enneagram continues to be used after thousands of years because of one simple reason: It works.
The main advantage of the Enneagram is that it identifies the strengths relative to the maturity level associated with a leader's inner core attributes--thoughts, feelings, values, beliefs, and behavioral tendencies. The Enneagram correlates with other well-known personality and behavioral assessments that are based on the four quadrant theory (e.g. Myers-Briggs and DISC). Only by understanding the underlying reasons for your actions can lasting change occur.
The Map of Leadership Maturity (Enneagram) consists of a circle into three main parts, or groupings: Heart Leaders, Head Leaders and Guts Leaders. The reader will see how his or her leadership style is multifaceted, complex, and well beyond simply attaching one overarching label as a means to describing you and how others see you. The purpose is to learn key insights about your leadership style---building your knowledge and skills so that you can more successfully lead different style types.
Source: John Mattone: Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential
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