Describing the 16 major personality types identified in the work of Briggs and Myers, this landmark book shows the profound effects--on marriage, learning and career satisfaction--of a person's style of perception and judgment. The late Isabel Briggs Myers co-authored the most widely used personality inventory in history, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Describing the 16 major personality types identified in the work of Briggs and Myers, this landmark book shows the profound effects--on marriage, learning and career satisfaction--of a person's style of perception and judgment.

Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types

Professor Keirsey is a long time clinical psychologist of the gestalt-field systems school. After 30 years of treating hundreds of teaching, parenting, marriage, and management problems, Dr. Keirsey now challenges the reader to "Abondon the Pygmalion Project", that endless and fruitless attempt to change the Other into a carbon copy of Oneself.

Please Understand Me II: Temperament Character Intelligence

For the past twenty years, Keirsey has continued to investigate personality differences — to refine his theory of the four temperaments and to define the facets of character that distinguish one from another. His findings form the basis of Please Understand Me II, an updated and greatly expanded edition of the book, far more comprehensive and coherent than the original, and yet with much of the same easy accessibility. One major addition is Keirsey's view of how the temperaments differ in the intelligent roles they are most likely to develop. Each of us, he says, has four kinds of intelligence — tactical, logistical, diplomatic, strategic — though one of the four interests us far more than the others, and thus gets far more practice than the rest. Like four suits in a hand of cards, we each have a long suit and a short suit in what interests us and what we do well, and fortunate indeed are those whose work matches their skills.

Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work

In this groundbreaking first book, authors Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen introduce the principles of Typewatching® and give readers a new way to understand themselves and others. Based on the theories of psychologist Carl Jung, Type Talk has become required reading for anyone interested in learning about personality type and how it affects daily life.

What Type Am I?: Discover Who You Really Are

Based on the classic personality indicator used by millions annually, this book will help you to assess your individual preferences in four basic areas: how you relate to the world, take in information, make decisions, and manage your life. Now a family therapist explains this fascinating system in a way that is entertaining and easy to absorb. Renee Baron takes on the complexity of the sixteen personality types and makes them accessible, so you can comprehend them, find your own type, and use the knowledge to enrich your own life. Here is information about individual strengths and weaknesses along with suggestions for personal growth and awareness. Whether you are a duty seeker or an action seeker, a knowledge seeker or an ideal seeker, What Type Am I? is insightful, helpful, encouraging, and an eminently useful step in helping you appreciate your strengths and apply them to work, love, and life.

True to Type

Answers to the Most Commonly Asked Questions About Interpreting the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Written by an experienced organizational development consultant, this book answers the 50 most commonly-asked questions about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You

Answers the eternal question, "what is normal?" A treasure chest of insights for those who seek a greater self-understanding. Building on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Personality Inventory (MBTI®), Pearman and Albritton, executives at Leadership Innovations, an international consulting and training firm, present an in-depth study of the dynamics of type. Through charts and explanatory text, the authors present a wide array of information, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each personality type, and explore type-dynamic behaviors and interactions, all to help us better understand our motivation and those of others. Individuals and managers who have taken the MBTI^® or use it for staff training will find this book a useful source for putting their knowledge of differing types to work toward communication with colleagues.

Personality Type: An Owner's Manual

This book reclaims type as a way to talk about people's inner potential and the choices they make in order to honor it. Using everyday examples from popular culture-films, "Star Trek," soap operas, comic strips--it describes the sixteen basic ways people come to terms with gifts and values.
In this book you will find tools to understand:

• how your personality takes shape,
• how your type reflects not only your current priorities, but your hidden potential, and
• how relationships at home and at work can help you to tap your unrealized gifts.

Do What You Are introduces Personality Type and shows you how to discover your own. Then, using workbook exercises and explaining specific job search strategies, it lists occupations that are popular with your type, including today's hottest career tracks in growth areas such as biotechnology, health care, and telecommunications. Throughout, the authors provide savvy career advice and highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type with real-life examples. If you are a recent graduate, job seeker, or career switcher, this lively guide will help you discover the right career for you. Join more than 100,000 satisfied readers and Do What You Are.

Type Talk at Work: How the Sixteen Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job

Are you one of those organized people who always complete your projects before they are due? Or do you put off getting the job done until the very last possible moment? Is your boss someone who readily lets you know how you are doing? Or does she always leave you unsure of precisely where you stand? Bestselling authors Otto Kroeger and Janet Thuesen make it easy to recognize your own type and those of your co-workers in Type Talk at Work, a revolutionary guide to understanding your workplace and thriving in it. Fully revised and updated for its 10th anniversary, this popular classic now features a new chapter on leadership, showing you how to be more effective on the job.

The Character of Organizations: Using Personality Type in Organization Development

Just as people have personalities, organizations - as well as their component departments, teams, and other work groups - have characters. An organization's character shapes how decisions get made and new ideas are received, how employees are treated and change is accepted or rejected - all factors that affect company performance. Using examples from McDonald's, Hewlett-Packard, GE, and others, Bridges identifies 16 organizational character types using the framework of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument and shows how these influence an organization's growth and development, and ultimately its success or failure in the marketplace.


Developing Leaders: Research and Applications in Psychological Type and Leadership Development