Understanding Personality - The Secret of Managing People
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
The perception that management can and does work exists in the minds of most managers - past, present, and future. It’s a concept born at the dawn of humankind when the burden of tasks exceeded the capacity of one person to accomplish them. It was perpetuated through the ages as civilization demanded productivity beyond the capabilities of the individual.
Without some form of oversight, chaos reins, which limits the growth and evolution of civilization. Management has been the key to our evolutionary progress from the primitive to the contemporary and the foundation for the development of our society. Why then does its value continue to be questioned? Is it because we fail to recognize that personality differences prevent us from understanding that there are multiple definitions of management emanating from each of the colors?