★美國亞馬遜暢銷預購商管書榜

在二十一世紀的變幻莫測商界，我們如何解決工作上的問題呢？

本書透過分析不同個性的類型與動機，向我們提出一種快捷、有效率、滿意的應對方法。

過去幾年，靜心與其他達到自我意識方法崛起，人們開始將它們運用到工作職場，提升個人管理之際，也增長管理者的自我意識、社交技能和情商，同時，是一個讓我們了解職場上更多不確定問題的方法。

本書無疑地提供我們一條通往自我意識、社交技能的途徑，幫助我們定位自我，清楚知道如何應付與他人之間產生的問題。

作者彙整與闡述九種不同領導類型的優缺點，並視它為一種解譯商界謎團的工具，識破：人們行為的真正動機？為什麼自己總與某些人起衝突、卻能與其他人和平共處？我們如何注意到自己的盲點？最重要的一點，管理者將以一種廣而深的角度認清自己能夠有效領導他人。

書中提出的九種領導類型包括：

◇Doing the Right Thing Is the Right Thing
◇The Power of Pleasing People
◇The Compulsively Productive Professional, or Getting to the Goal and Looking Good Doing It
◇The Power of Authentic Self-Expression
◇The Knowledgeable Observer, or the Quiet Authority
◇The Skeptical, Vigilant Troubleshooter
◇The Innovative, Optimistic Visionary, or Focusing on the Future (and Feeling Festive)
◇The Powerful, Decisive Activator or Moving Things Forward from a Position of Strength
◇Leading from Consensus, Modeling Inclusion, and Defusing Conflict—or the Consensus-Building Mediator

本書雖以管理學作為立基，宗旨是一本寫給每位職場人的最佳指南。

Beatrice Chestnut, PhD went to college in Los Angeles and attended graduate school in Chicago and San Francisco. A licensed psychotherapist, coach, and business consultant based in San Francisco, she has graduate degrees in communication and clinical psychology. She has taught at Northwestern University and facilitated interpersonal learning groups at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and University of San Francisco’s School of Law. She has been studying and working with the Enneagam for 23 years. She was certified to teach the Enneagram in 1997 through the Helen Palmer/David Daniels Enneagram Professional Training Program. She served as president of the International Enneagram Association in 2006 and 2007 and was founding co-editor of the IEA’s Enneagram Journal in 2008.