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Business Week article about the Enneagram

Pigeonholing Goes Corporate
American Business is Using the Enneagram of Personality Types

You've never heard of enneagrams? You may soon. This system of personality analysis, once faddish pop psychology, is becoming a pesonnel tool for Corporate America. The enneagram system, whose orgins are obscure, types people into nine personality groups, using a written test. It's similar to the oft-used Myers-Briggs test, but enneagram fans say their test is more in-depth.

Greek for "nine" and "drawing," the enneagram is a nine pointed star with a personality type at each point. Every type has pluses and minues. A One, or perfectionist, is conscintious but can't handle criticism. An Eight, the Asserter, is energetic - plus abrasive. Knowning your own and others' numbers is supposed to make both bosses and underlings cooeprate better.

For $1,000 a participant, ...conducts five-day programs in Hewlett-Packard and other companies. Says Dominick robertson, who had 20 people from the HP division he heads take the course, it's better to talk about your type than about aspects of your personality that irriate me."

By Julie Tilsner, Business Week, 10.2.95