Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work : How to Use the Enneagram System for Success

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Summary: This is the book we've been waiting for.
Review: Fantastic book! No technical jargon, no psycho-babble, just a lot of wise, witty, and perceptive insights. This will probably become the definitive work in the field, but it's written in a light, breezy style that makes it a fun read at the beach for the general reader.
Read this book twice: The first time, to understand what pushes your own buttons; the second time, to understand what pushes the buttons of the people around you.

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Summary: Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work
Review: Ginger Lapid-Bogda has written an excellent guide to utilizing the Enneagram in the workplace. This book has significant value for organizational development consultants, human resources professionals and managers to better understand themselves and the people with whom they work. But it can be utilized by anyone wanting to know themselves better and to maximize performance in the workplace. With a forward by Helen Palmer and endorsements from David Daniels, Michael Goldberg, Claudio Naranjo and others, Lapid-Bogda has organized her book into chapters that address critical issues in the workplace, including communication, giving constructive feedback, managing conflict, creating high-performing teams, and leveraging leadership (these are titles of some of the chapters). The author doesn't back away from the complexities of this system, but her opening chapter is an excellent introduction to the Enneagram. Throughout the book the language is clear, with practical examples of applications in each of these categories for the nine types in the Enneagram personality system. In my role as a consultant, I am finding this new book invaluable.

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Summary: An Exceptional Book by an Authentic Expert
Review: My experience as an organizational and personal development professional working with groups and individuals has convinced me that the primary source of failures in leadership, management, and teamwork is the pervasive lack of self understanding, hence understanding of others, exhibited by leaders, managers, and staff in our organizations. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first book presenting a truly useful system to enhance and build such critical understanding--the Enneagram in a business context.

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Summary: A must-read
Review: Objective, yet comprehensive. Practical, yet very solid in its concepts.

Lapid-Bogda has a solid background both in Organizational Development (OD) and the Enneagram, an outstanding tool for self-understanding/developing and relating better with others (the author is today the President of the International Enneagram Association). The result is a creative and useful bridge between these two areas, with stories, checklists and insights that will help practitioners on both sides. OD consultants with enrich their approaches with the use of the Enneagram; and Enneagram practitioners will find added-value to the current literature, through innovative chapters, which are divided per organizational problems, rather than per personality types.

In a brief: this book brings invaluable information for everyone who wants to achieve superior results for oneself and for others, creating a high functioning and conscious team at work.

Being an organizational consultant from Brazil, I can also add that the book's guidelines are universal.

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Summary: Personality Traits in the Business Environment
Review: This is a book on using the Enneagram system specifically oriented to todays business environment. The Enneagram is not unlike other personality oriented systems. First an individual is asked to examine nine different personality types and to identify himself with one. Then the Enneagram, a diagram of the interaction of the various types can be used to predict behavior.

The book, however, reverses the normal trend in personality testing books where the book is organized around the personality type. Instead the book describes several common business situations and then describes how the various personality types react to the situation.