Making a Difference by Being Yourself: Using Your Personality Type at Work and in Relationships »

There are hundreds of ways to make a difference: in process, in outcomes, with tasks or with people. And from the latest business bestsellers to over 28 million hits on Google, people in every walk of life are seeking answers. Building on the powerful fundamentals of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(R) assessment and drawing on survey data from more than 500 people at every level of the organization, Making a Difference by Being Yourself offers a simplified framework that identifies four key personality types—stabilizers, harmonizers, catalysts, and visionaries—and shows how to go beyond a simple understanding of who we are to actually put into practice—purposefully and consciously—the strengths of our own personalities and styles in ways that can make a meaningful difference.

Deborah Bigelow - Library Journal

Licensed psychologist Huszczo (Tools for Team Excellence) builds on the fundamentals of the Myers-Briggs Inventory to help readers identify their personality type to use their strengths to benefit others. Exercises allow for assessing one's preference for introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving. Huszczo then devotes single chapters to the four personality types-stabilizers, harmonizers, catalysts, and visionaries-in which he discusses each type's ability to help others, be dependable, communicate, and motivate others. While the author advocates self-understanding, his chief objective is to encourage readers to look outward to find inner satisfaction. Recommended for all libraries.

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

Part 1 Making a Difference and Discovering Who You Are 1

Chapter 1 Why Is Making a Difference So Important? 3

Chapter 2 How Do You Make a Difference? 9

Chapter 3 Who Are You? Putting Your Personality to Use 19

Part 2 Making a Difference with Your Personality 39

Chapter 4 How "Stabilizers" (STs) Can Make a Difference 43

Chapter 5 How "Harmonizers" (SFs) Can Make a Difference 77

Chapter 6 How "Catalysts" (NFs) Can Make a Difference 119

Chapter 7 How "Visionaries" (NTs) Can Make a Difference 161

Chapter 8 Planning to Make a Difference 201

Appendix A Verifying Your MBTI Personality Type 219

Appendix B Your Core Personality Type at Work 225

Appendix C "Making a Difference" Themes by Core Personality Type 233

References 237

Index 241