"Good leaders know the importance of relationships to a healthy organization."From Stuckness to Growth "will raise your awareness as a leader. Knowing how each individual's unique personality type drives his or her behavior will improve the value of every interaction and relationship in your workplace.Every leader should keep this book nearby and refer to it often."
-- KEN BLANCHARD Co-author of ""The One Minute Manager(r)"" and ""Great Leaders Grow""

"Throughout my career of over forty years I've seen all kind of management fads come and go. Perhaps the common denominator of these temporary fads is that they offer "one-size-fits-all" solutions together with unrealistic promises of "total transformation" of your personality and behavior. Against the trend of canned approaches that keep plaguing the market suggesting ungrounded approaches to today's managers' challenges, here is a methodology that goes counter-current. Yechezkel and Ruth Madanes' approach is innovative and intellectually stimulating as well as professional and practical. It will challenge you not only to think but also to act out of the box."
-- ICHAK ADIZES, Ph.D., world-renowned authority in organizational transformation

"We highly admire the spirit and depth of the authors approach to coaching with the Enneagram"
-- DON RISO & RUSS HUDSON, Authors of the international best-sellers ""Personality Types" "and ""The Wisdom of the Enneagram""

This immensely practical book will teach you what no MBA program will: that leadership begins with "self-"leadership. Let's imagine you have a prestigious degree from an Ivy League university. Let's even say that you have a lot of money. But if you lack self-leadership, if you are stuck in the chatter of your own mind, your education won't be worth the paper it's written on because you cannot apply it. And your money will be like having a Rolls-Royce without the keys to turn it on. Total waste.

With a powerful methodology that combines the Enneagram and the Adizes PAEI systems of personality types, this book addresses the internal interferences that can block your way to success. It will help you understand what drives and shapes your thoughts, feelings, and behavior. This will allow you to "Know thyself," thereby gaining the tools to deal effectively with your own personality limitations. You will become able to free your energy, fulfill your leadership potential, and achieve your goals and dream

This immensely practical book offers coaches, consultants, trainers, and therapists the necessary tools to transform their careers using the Enneagram, a sophisticated personality types system, as a basis for effective interventions. Packed with dozens of powerful ideas and creative strategies that can be put to use right away in your practice, this rich, comprehensive resource will help you learn: How to coach each of the nine personality types; how to help each type shift from stuckness to growth; how to work with each type's cognitive distorting filters; how to use the Enneagram with the Robbins-Madanes model; how to use the Enneagram with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator; how to help each Type overcome its key developmental obstacles and much more. "The beauty of this new Enneagram and Coaching book is how the authors have created a non-pathologizing methodology that recognizes both our humanness and our spiritual core. They continuously draw on the wisdom of all three Centers in their process for helping clients become unstuck. They also clearly emphasize the more life-embracing sides of type, and include type-specific guided meditations and practices that are grounded in presence and self-awareness. We highly admire the spirit and depth of their approach to coaching with the Enneagram." --DON RISO AND RUSS HUDSON, best-selling authors of Personality Types and The Wisdom of the Enneagram.