Have you wondered why things seem to be getting worse all the time, despite all the government programs, law enforcement agencies, doctors, scientists, and others, trying their best to come up with solutions? Have you noticed that every solution offered brings unintended negative consequences? With all the bright people in the world, why are we facing imminent social, economic, political and environmental collapse? Until we can determine that a proposed solution will have only life-enhancing outcomes, we will continue to grope in the dark, trying to solve problems with only limited understanding-and the solutions offered by the limited, fear-based ego will never succeed. The root problem lies with the ego, a fiction made up by our minds assuming a separate self and a hostile world in which the ego needs to struggle and manipulate to survive. We cannot see reality from the stance of the ego; we can only see its projections based on the past. So our endless struggles will get us nowhere in trying to solve the world's problems, because we cannot get there that way. This book uses the spiritual technology of the Enneagram to illustrate the nine primary delusions of the ego, and shows how to use this tool to uncover the underlying virtues. Learn how to transcend the limited ego and move into a present-moment awareness of reality and the joy that it brings to you and to your world.
About the Author: David K. Banner, PhD was the Professor of Leadership at the Dahl School of Business, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI until 2008; he has now retired from university teaching. He currently mentors PhD students in Leadership and Organization Change at Walden University in Minneapolis. From 2003-2007, he was the Director of the innovative, values-based MBA program at Viterbo, essentially starting the program from scratch, recruiting students, setting up a Board of Advisors, hiring and mentoring faculty and getting the program accredited. Prior to that, he was the only chaired professor (The Napoleon Hill Professor of Leadership) at the Eckhart School of Business, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. All in all, he spent 33years in university teaching in Canada, the US, Australia, and the Netherlands. He is the author of 6 books, 30 journal articles, and 35 conference papers on transformational leadership, self-management, new paradigm organization design, ethics and integrity in business and related topics. In his varied career, he has been an aerospace engineer for NASA, a management consultant for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell (an international accounting/consulting firm), an entrepreneur, a university professor and an author.(www.davidkbanner.com) He currently resides in Viroqua, WI, a small southwestern Wisconsin town where he was a member of the Vernon County Board of Supervisors, 5 Board sub-committees, The Board of Pleasant Ridge Waldorf school and a member of its Finance Committee, a founding member of the Youth Initiative High School (Waldorf-inspired), and he has served on the Historical Society, the Comprehensive Planning Committee and the Board of the Viroqua Food Coop. David loves life and he samples from its varied aspects freely and with gusto!