How Leaders Think with Kenny Lange Awareness - The Inner Loop Series Part 1
Dec 17, 2025
This insightful discussion kicks off with the critical role of awareness in effective leadership. Kenny highlights how many leadership breakdowns stem from poor diagnosis rather than execution failures. By sharing his personal blind spots and tools for self-awareness, he emphasizes that leaders must confront reality without shame. The conversation navigates through team dynamics, pinpointing communication gaps and the importance of role clarity. It also explores the systemic issues organizations face, advocating for alignment before action.
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Diagnosis Before Action
- Most strategic failures are diagnosis problems, not execution problems.
- Leaders jump to solutions before accurately assessing root causes which causes change efforts to fail.
Prioritize Personal Awareness
- Do build self-awareness first because your organization will never outgrow your self-awareness.
- Use reflection to identify patterns, defaults under stress, and the blind spots limiting your team.
Enneagram 8 Awakening
- Kenny Lange shares his Enneagram 8 pattern: strength turns into bulldozing when stressed.
- He only recognized the harm after 360 feedback revealed people were afraid to push back.