The 9 Ways of Working: How to Use the Enneagram to Discover Your Natural Strengths and Work More Effectively [Anglais] [Broché]

The 9 Ways of Working is a dictionary of the people with whom you work! Keep it right on your desk

"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."

"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."

"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."

"'A practical and immediately useful book for managers.'"

"Goldberg is a master of the Enneagram and his book is the best in the business on business."

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.

A practical and effective application of the Enneagram to the complex world of business relationships.

Introduces the nine personality styles of the Enneagram, a classic approach to work and life. Its nine types has a distinct world view that determines how these personalities think, and why they act as they do. Softcover. DLC: Enneagram.

The 9 Ways of Working introduces the nine personality styles of the Enneagram, a classic, highly powerful approach to work and life. Each of the Enneagram's nine types has a distinct worldview which determines how they think, what they want, and why they act the way they do. You'll recognize the personality types of the people you work with---colleagues, clients, bosses---as well as your own. And you'll discover the most effective ways to work with these people:
1. The Perfectionist gets things done right---regardless of the consequences. 2. The Helper nurtures others' careers---and demands to be appreciated for it. 3. The Producer works hard to succeed---but can burn out in overwork. 4. The Connoisseur explores his or her creativity and deep feelings---but may get lost in them. 5. The Sage craves data, theories and insight---but may forget the human element 6. The Troubleshooter knows the secrets and who can be trusted---but can get mighty paranoid. 7. The Visionary inspires with brilliant, fun, imaginative ideas---but leaves closure to others. 8. The Top Dog exercises leadership---but may end up as a vengeful bully. 9. The Mediator wants everybody working as a conflict-free team---but may forget his or her own goals.

Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching and consulting, Michael Goldberg's rich descriptions catch the "aha!" of each style with insightful anecdotes and real-life stories. He shows how each style is likely to connect with or miss the others, what kind of leadership is right for certain situations, and how each style makes important decisions and gets work done. You'll see the special gifts and talents of each style, their limits and blind spots, and when they will shine and when they will wilt. The 9 Ways of Working is packed with practical tips and cautions for each style and for working with each style.

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.

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 variously supportive or inconsiderate, conventional or bizarre, intrusive or stand-offish. But when we know where others find themselves on the Enneagram we see that their behavior too grows out of a consistent philosophy of life that makes perfect sense to them, whether you agree with it or not. You can then tailor your message to the deeply held concerns of the listener, even if these concerns are not clearly expressed or even conscious. Many of us yield to the temptation to think of the other types as a defective version of our own. But the Enneagram teaches that we are different in important ways...

The real message of the Enneagram is that we approach the world with contrasting patterns of intention and attention (our purposes and our values) that give meaning to our world. Knowing these organizing principles makes real understanding possible; not knowing them seems to make misunderstandings inevitable. The Enneagram opens us to the experience of others, and helps us get out of our own way.