Your Bosses Leadership Style | 5 Life Path

Your Bosses Leadership Style | 5 Life Path

I received a request from a reader, asking about how to understand the style and traits of bosses by looking at the Life Path number.

(A shout-out to Chantel! Thanks for asking this question!)

Since I’ve not addressed this before, I thought I’d offer my take on it.

Not to complicate matters, yet I would also say, if you can find out the Expression (or Destiny) number of the person in question, that would be an even more complete way to understand leadership style.

(If, for some bizarre reason, you know both the Life Path and the Expression-Destiny number of your boss, read for both numbers to get a more expansive picture of your bosses leadership style).

Why?

Because the Expression-Destiny number indicates how you will go about doing what you do. It’s often a great gauge as to what kind of work or career you would be good at or will gravitate toward.

Knowing this aspect will give you an even clearer idea about leadership style than knowing just the Life Path. Although it’s fair to say that it might be much more challenging to discover the Expression-Destiny number of your boss or potential boss, given that it’s calculated from your full birth certificate name, not from your birth date.

With that said, let’s go!

5 Life Path: The Sensual Sales Person

The thing about the 5 Life Path boss is that they’re masters and mistresses of ideas yet they often struggle with focus and follow-through (that’s where you come in!). The 5 requires variety, if not a bit of drama. The 5 Life Path is all about freedom — freedom through self-discipline. They’re drawn to enterprises that excite the senses and are at their highest-and-best as a boss when they’re the lead on a sales team, manager of a territory, or in a position that offers them plenty of freedom.

Style:  The 5 Life Path is all about versatility, is an agent of change, and thrives with progressive ideas and activities.  They are catalysts. The issue is that this is a frenetic Life Path and can be scattered and possibly flit from thing to thing. They’re amazing lightning rods for anything dynamic and forward-thinking. They can be a force of nature and are expansive when allowed a certain level of free reign. Conversely, the 5 Life Path can get stuck in ruts, suffer from over-whelm, and create restrictions for themselves.

What they want and need from YOU (whether they know it or not!):

• They need people who can provide focus and grounding for them. The 5 boss can say that they don’t want any drama and yet, they become the drama.
• They need support and encouragement for their ideas and activities — yet they need people who can also offer a “reality check.”
• They want you to be responsible for the detail work. They need people who do the “grunt work,” so to speak. They need you to keep them on task and do the management, organization, and deal with practicalities — and they need encouragement and kudos along the way.

Traits:

• Fun and dynamic
• High energy
• Can be scattered and ineffective
• Can be emotionally volatile
• Easily overwhelmed

Biggest Nemesis:  Lack of stick-to-it-ness and can get distracted by all the “bright and shiny objects” or by feeling caged in.

Think of: Russell Brand or Brené Brown

Ideal: The 5 Life Path boss is the one who can come up with five different solutions to a problem. Vivacious and dynamic, with a seemingly endless amount of energy, the 5 Life Path boss is open to new ideas and is always forward-moving.