This work shows readers how to use the Enneagram - an ancient personality system - to profile the nine types of people and improve their working relationship with them. It teaches how to play to someone's strong points, work around their shortcomings, soften their hard edges and help them make the "right" decisions. Written in a lively style, accompanied by real life stories, the book defines the nine types of people and offers methods of achieving success, getting ahead, having better meetings, negotiating more effectively and completing projects with less stress and more impact.