I took the Enneagram test today as a part of a training program. Apparently the technique was developed and used in ancient times in Middle East by the Sufi Saints.
Though I am wary of such tests, today the few people I knew in the class (and with whom I had spent considerable amount of working time) aptly fitted their personality type. And as the entire test consists of 3 seemingly disjointed tests, its difficult to tame/tweak the test.In fact, the Instructor pointed out their behavior in previous sessions and co-related with their personality type. There’s lots of literature available on the web. Strongly recommended, if you work in a team.I am a Type 8.
How true are these tests?
Update 1 : Discussion on Aardvark.
So you have Wikipedia – the user contributed encyclopedia, Google – the generic search engine and Bing – the decision engine to find out instant answers and information. These are good sources to find out factual information like the weather, How-To’s etc. However, if you need an answer/pointer to a question that has no definitive …
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July 21, 2010 – 17:44
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By zoso
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Posted in search
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ProductCamps are held around the world to bring together Product Management and Marketing professionals to learn, teach to and network with their peers. ProductCamp Pune is on Aug 1 ,2010. Head over to the site for details of the event. Also, checkout the Google Groups where we discuss on organizing ProductCamps and other Product Management …
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In spite of all the brouhaha over Social Media and Inbound marketing, email is still one of the first point of contacts to business(even in Twitter). So, the first impression has to be right, else people instead of looking at the content, would look for the “Leave Me Alone” button. This is precisely the reason …
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May 20, 2010 – 12:20
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By zoso
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Posted in Mktg
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Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds is a wonderful guide for making more beautiful and less cluttered presentations. The author uses many of the Japanese concepts like Kanso (Simplicity), Shizen(Naturalness), Shibumi ( Elegance), Wabi-Sabi ( Simplicity), Pecha Kucha and of course the philosophy of Zen . A must read if you are in Marketing/MarComm and frequently …
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Came across this BW interview with Steve Jobs. His answer to the question on why Apple struggled to Innovate before he returned in 1997 : You need a very product-oriented culture, even in a technology company. Lots of companies have tons of great engineers and smart people. But ultimately, there needs to be some gravitational …
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