The Enneagram -- a system based on nine personality types -- is a uniquely powerful approach to understanding why people behave the way they do. The 9 Ways of Working teaches how to recognize the personality types of everyone you work with -- colleagues, clients, consultants, and the boss -- and use that information to understand how those people manage, make decisions, resolve or create conflicts, and more.
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"'A practical and immediately useful book for managers.'" --
Getting Results, American Management Association
"A dictionary of the people with whom you work! Keep it right on your desk...Goldberg has created a tool that enables the reader to improve managerial and peer relation skills using the Enneagram. Based on nine personality styles - each with different values, goals and ways of achieving them the Enneagram makes the intentions and behaviors of others understandable, allowing people to work together with power and impact. In using the Enneagram, management and staff are given practical steps to create a work environment of higher efficiency, clearer communication, stronger work teams and greater understanding. Goldberg's presentation is clear, concise and easy to follow."--
The Canadian Manager [review of hardbound edition]
"A thorough and complete guide to all nine Enneagram types.Entertaining to read, filled with practical examples, The Nine Ways of Working is without a doubt one of the best if not the best Enneagram books for making our work and personal relationships deeper and more rewarding. No one in business should be without it."--
Jack Labanauskas, Enneagram Monthly
"Gives many suggestions on the best way to handle different types of people, as well as ways to eliminate the faults associated with one's own personality type."--
Human Resources Professional [review of hardbound edition]
"Goldberg is a master of the Enneagram and his book is the best in the business on business."--
Clarence Thompson, editor,Enneagram Educator
"Offering insight into how people behave, relate and make decisions, [and] using expert direction he has already seen work for organizations such as Motorola and the CIA, Goldberg offers real solutions for everyone who wants to communicate more effectively" --
OR/MS, Operations Research/Management Science Today [review of hardbound edition]
A practical and immediately useful book for managers--
Getting Results, American Management Association
The 9 Ways of Working is a dictionary of the people with whomyou work! Keep it right on your desk--
The Canadian Manager作者简介
Michael J. Goldberg consults with the Enneagram all over the world to organizations large and small, including Motorola, the Central Intelligence Agency and VLSI Technology. Goldberg specializes in leadership and workteam dynamics. He has taught at graduate schools of management and law.
文摘
Based on ancient philosophic traditions, the Enneagram is a profound, elegant, and compassionate approach to people and their relationships. It describes nine basic worldviews, nine different ways of doing business in the world. Each of the nine personality types is something of a pathway through life, with likely obstacles and pitfalls along the way. Each style has its own natural gifts, limitations, and blind spots, its own distinctive ways of thinking, acting, and being. Each relishes particular information, facts, feelings, and understandings, while ignoring other information, especially anything that doesn't fit preconceived notions or inclinations.
"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions," wrote Bertrand Russell, "which move with him like flies on a summer's day. Such convictions normally go unexamined and unchallenged partly because they are indeed comforting,(I know how the world works) and because they have become so basic to our worldview that they are largely unconscious.The Enneagram exposes these unconscious assumptions, closely held opinions, inclinations and expectations, that we barely knew we had but which drive the way we see ourselves, do our work, relate to colleagues and make decisions. Instead of operating out of habit from comforting convictions you can, with clear intent, invoke your true reservoir of talents and skills.
Naturally we interpret other people's behaviors through our own way of looking at things. We tend to see our own stance as baseline, more or less objective. We judge the behavior of others as
