The 6 Types Of Working Genius Book Summary

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In “The 6 Types of Working Genius,” by Patrick M. Lencioni, you’ll learn about the different types of working genius and the special skills based on personality that are associated with each. 

Knowledge of these genius types will aid you in drawing the best out of everyone you work with, and in other areas of life. You can use this information as a stay-at-home mom, a member of the PTA, a CEO, or a team member of any company. You can also use this information to draw out your best attributes as well, helping you better understand yourself to work in cohesion with the people around you.

Furthermore, Lencioni explains why your company may have lost valuable members in the past and how to transform your workplace into a place that people want to stay long-term. 

Key Points

Most People Don’t Look Forward To Work

When Sunday rolls around, the Sunday scaries kick in for a majority of people. They’re stressed about the week ahead and mourning the end of the weekend, doing things that they enjoy. But why don’t people enjoy their work when they spend a third of their adult lives doing it?

Work is a hard thing to shake off since you spend so much time doing it. This can cause an overflow into your personal life, affecting relationships with your spouse, your children, and your friends. 

You may be waiting for that next raise or a new title to start feeling happy and excited about work. But people with promotions are, in truth, not happier in their workplace. There may be a temporary high, but that is quickly over, and work just feels like work again.

Even entrepreneurs deal with work woes. It may seem like a dream to control the vision of your business, but especially in the beginning stages, figuring out problems solo can be challenging. 

There are many issues that can contribute to the unhappiness of working, such as bad choices, poor management, inadequate counseling, and people simply not fitting into the culture of the workplace they’re in. 

But, there are also people who are very skilled in their positions, maintain quality relationships with the people they work with, and are still dissatisfied or feel burned out. If a promotion or title won’t fix that, what will?

The Three Stages Of Work

Let’s introduce a fictional character to better understand unhappiness in the workplace. We will call him Bull Brooks. 

Brooks graduated with a degree in economics. He started in a position at a bank and then moved into advertising. While working in advertising, he gets promoted to vice president at his company. That was great for Brooks at first, but he started to suddenly lose his passion and decided to found his own ad firm with some of his friends and colleagues.

The new ad firm is wonderful at first, and he’s living on the high of being the leader of the vision. But then that loss of passion returns, which begins affecting his home life. 

Brooks knows ditching his company is not the best solution...

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