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14 What Type of Leader Are You?

QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF TO DETERMINE
WHETHER YOU MIGHT BE AN ENNEAGRAM STYLE FIVE

1. When a situation gets emotional or intense, do I automatically
disconnect from my feelings of the moment and then
reconnect with these emotions later at a time and place of my
choice?
2. Do the four basic issues—thirst for knowledge, privacy,
emotional detachment, and compartmentalization—apply to
me?
3. Does the Style Five leadership paradigm fit my view of
leadership?
4. Did I check 10 or more items in “Areas of Strength” and “Areas
for Development”?

Sixes

Sixes have insightful minds and create anticipa-
tory or worst-case scenarios to help themselves feel
prepared in case something goes wrong.

Core focus: What could go wrong here? Whom can
I trust? Am I making the best decisions?

Common labels: Devil’s advocate, loyalist, questioner, skeptic

Basic Issues for Sixes

ANTICIPATORY PLANNING AND WORST-CASE SCENARIOS Sixes usu-
ally have active and vivid imaginations that continually generate
worst-case scenarios. In fact, Sixes can be quite insightful, antici-
pating and averting potential problems, but they also can miss the
mark, projecting their own thoughts and feelings onto others and
causing themselves anxiety in the process. Some Sixes—called
phobic Sixes—are aware that they tend to create worst-case sce-