David Keirsey Knihy

Lidé se mezi sebou zcela zásadně liší. Z obecného hlediska mají tyto rozdíly pozitivní význam. Jak se neztratit v různorodosti a pestrobarevnosti lidských povah? Třeba právě s pomocí zde předložené typologie MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), která popisuje 16 typů osobnosti člověka kombinací osmi charakteristik. Poradí vám například, pro jakou práci se hodíte a jste-li na vedoucí pozici, pro jaký typ práce se hodí vaši zaměstnanci či uchazeči o zaměstnání. Zjistíte také, co vás motivuje, co je pro vás v životě optimální, čemu byste se měli naopak vyhnout. Poznejte lépe sebe i druhé a využijte svých schopností a odlišností ke zlepšení svého života.

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. As in the original book, Please Understand Me II begins with The Keirsey Temperament Sorter, the most used personality inventory in the world. But also included is The Keirsey Four-Types Sorter, a new short questionnaire that identifies one's basic temperament and then ranks one's second, third, and fourth choices. Share this new sorter with friends and family, and get set for a lively and fascinating discussion of personal styles.

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 "Abandon the Pygmalion Project", that endless and fruitless attempt to change the Other into a carbon copy of Oneself.

Dr. Keirsey examines in detail the ingrained attitudes and habitual actions of the four basic personality the Artisans, Guardians, Rationals, and Idealists. Keirsey summarizes the four temperaments, showing how behaviour of each is either concrete or abstract, cooperative or pragmatic, directive or informative, and finally assertive or responsive. The book includes two brief self-scoring personality tests to assist in observing the differences and similarities among us.