• Provides an authoritative study of personality, mainly in a work setting, which is suitable for both higher educational and vocational courses

• Introduces, in the context of personality, some essential concepts of hunter-gatherer environmental variability theory

• Describes and explains virtually everyone’s personality on the basis of hunter-gatherer environmental variability theory

• Enables everyone to understand more fully their own and other people’s personality

• Supplies explanations of individual deliberate behaviour which support the reasoning and conclusions of the other two books of the trilogy

Pages: 498

ISBN: 978-0-9562047-2-1

Price: £14.99 Publication date: 31 October 2024

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" Individuals have the diverse personalities of reasoning, social, nomadic, tool-using, omnivorous hunter-gatherers who were adapted to ongoing, abrupt, dramatic environmental variability."

Human personalities

The hunter-gatherer environmental variability theory of personality is based upon a straightforward, if surprising, idea that:

Individuals have the diverse personalities of reasoning, social, nomadic, tool-using, omnivorous hunter-gatherers who were adapted to ongoing, abrupt, dramatic environmental variability.

" Supplies essential knowledge for making decisions which depend upon an individual’s personality, whether in, for example, personal life, government, business or education"

Practical benefits

In A Guide to Everyone’s Personality, emphasis is placed upon the practical benefits which would flow from a widespread understanding of the hunter-gatherer environmental variability theory of personality. Three examples of the benefits are that the theory:

• Supplies essential knowledge for making decisions which depend upon an individual’s personality, whether in, for example, personal life, government, business or education
• Provides the framework for any organisation to recruit, or identify among existing employees or students, the individuals who are most suited to, for example, specific educational courses or particular employment opportunities
• Offers clear guidance on the composition of effective teams in terms of the personalities and roles of their members

"... simply and clearly explains everyone’s personality using everyday language."

Back cover contents (extract)

KNOW YOURSELF

UNDERSTAND YOUR COLLEAGUES

MAKE BETTER DECISIONS AT WORK

A Guide to Everyone’s Personality simply and clearly explains everyone’s personality using everyday language. The author:

• Shows how to use the Davies Personality Profile in order to describe everyone’s personality
• Recognises everyone’s individuality
• Illustrates personality by numerous examples taken from the lives of the most famous people in the Western World
• Explains how to use this knowledge to improve significantly individual and organisational performance

About the author 

Michael Davies’s many years of senior management experience was in an international group where he managed a large finance department. He has also taught business subjects from access to professional and MA courses and published in leading accountancy journals.

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Contents

Introduction

1     Sociability disposition

2     Emotion disposition

3     Ambition disposition

4     Curiosity disposition

5     Uncertainty disposition

6     Ways of thinking dimension

7     Ways of interacting dimension

8     Ways of relating dimension

9     Social interests dimension

10    Attitudes to the future dimension

11    Social attitudes

12    Lifestyles

13    Social roles

14    Intelligence span

15    Personality assessment headings

16    The Davies personality profile

17    Personality assessment using the Davies personality profile

18    Explanation of personality

19    Children’s personalities

20    Life experiences

21    Self-awareness

22    Job specification using the Davies personality profile

23    Effective decision making units (using the Davies personality profile)

24    Evidence

25    Conclusion

Glossary

Further reading

Index

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"We need to understand our own and other people’s personalities. Fortunately, our personalities consist of recognisable characteristics. With practice and experience, these can be understood and identified."

INTRODUCTION (Extract)

Personal relationships take up much of our time at work. We are constantly being assessed or making judgements about people. On the basis of these judgements, we have to take vital decisions. Organisations and careers succeed or fail depending on the quality of the decisions made about people. Good decisions about people at work significantly improve performance and increase profit. Bad decisions about people at work are very expensive in time and money. Opportunities are lost and relationships at work damaged. We all need to know ourselves and understand others. We need to understand our own and other people’s personalities. Fortunately, our personalities consist of recognisable characteristics. With practice and experience, these can be understood and identified.

"The time, effort and money spent on understanding personality will repay itself countless times in better performance, reduced costs and increased profit."

This book provides many unique insights into everyone’s personality and supplies:

• Individuals with the knowledge to take the right decisions for themselves and about other people
• Organisations with a comprehensive personality assessment system for employee recruitment, placement and promotion
• A straightforward system for the creation of highly effective organisations

It is a resource no organisation can afford to ignore. The time, effort and money spent on understanding personality will repay itself countless times in better performance, reduced costs and increased profit.

Everyone is very busy. Consequently, the ideas in this book are explained as simply as possible. The language is straightforward and non-technical. There are many diagrams and tables which emphasise the key points. The best way to understand personality is with a combination of theory, examples and practice. In this work, there are numerous examples of personality based on real people. For the most part, these examples are taken from the lives of famous historical individuals.

The chapters are intended to be read in order from the beginning. It is certainly easiest to start at Chapter 1 and read each of the following chapters in turn, because later chapters use ideas explained earlier in the book. An essential aim of this book is to show how we can apply our understanding of personality to improve significantly our decisions at work. At the end of most chapters, there are summaries and suggestions for practical exercises which may help you to remember and use the ideas. However, the use of this material is optional and your choice.

" It cannot be stressed too strongly that in understanding personality we are not judging the merits of an individual’s personality. One kind of personality is neither better nor worse than another. Our personalities are just different. This is a point of fundamental importance."

The contents of this work apply equally to the personalities of men and women. Taken as a whole, there are some differences of emphasis between men’s and women’s personalities, but, in this book, we are dealing with men and women as individuals and not groups. It cannot be stressed too strongly that in understanding personality we are not judging the merits of an individual’s personality. One kind of personality is neither better nor worse than another. Our personalities are just different. This is a point of fundamental importance.

Copyright © 2024 Michael James Davies, All Rights Reserved

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