Chapter Nine

Integration of the Building Blocks

As fascinating as they are, most psychological theories and manager case histories stop short of providing personal answers to the questions they raise. But determining or verifying your own management style is important for you to accomplish. Learning how the six building blocks interact in yourself to form your personal management style can help you both in your personal growth and in understanding others.

Through honest introspection and management experience, you may already know quite a lot about yourself. But you can build on your existing self-knowledge by taking various personality tests and interpreting the results in the light of the concepts in this book. The next sections will describe ...

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