Journal of Managerial Psychology

There is tremendous and continuing interest in trying to find practical ways through which people can readily categorize, describe, make sense of, and relate to each other. One such explanatory and descriptive framework is the "Enneagram". This book briefly describes some of the background heritage to the ideas of this particular approach but its main purpose is to describe the way in which these nine "personality types" can be described, relate to each other and impact on what people do, what they are like to work with, how they influence, and what it means to "be one of these" different types in practice…The book is quite interesting. It provides another way of thinking about a person's motivation and behaviour, about how they make decisions, about what they look for in life, and how they relate to others… This is a useful book to look at and the enneagram approach is worth knowing about.

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