Surrounded by Idiots

The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life)

De: Thomas Erikson

Narrado por: David John

A runaway best seller in Sweden that has sold more than a million copies worldwide, Surrounded by Idiots shares a groundbreaking new method of understanding the people around you that will change how you interact with everyone from your coworkers to your spouse.

Author Thomas Erikson explains that there are four key behavior types that define how we interact with and perceive the people around us. Understanding someone’s pattern of behavior is the key to successful communication. Erikson breaks down the four kinds of behavior types - Reds who are dominant and commanding, Yellows who are social and optimistic, Greens who are laid-back and friendly, and Blues who are analytical and precise - and explains how to identify and interact with each type of person. Instead of being bogged down with overly technical categorizations, the simple four-color system allows you to speedily identify a friend or coworker and adjust how you speak and share with them.

Surrounded by Idiots is full of practical information for interacting with people based on their color, including the strengths and weaknesses of all the profiles, how to give positive and negative feedback to each, and the best way to word an email when writing to someone with a different profile.

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©2019 Text copyright by Thomas Erikson; Foreword copyright by David Bonnstetter (P)2019 Penguin Audio

The content isn't as insightful as hoped.

I understand why this book is popular and considered a good read, but IMO that's only true if it's ones first book into this area. Having read many before hand, i find a lot of the content to be inaccurate and/or loosely correct. The reason being the concepts are based on stereotypes, not only that but they break people down into stereotypes. The only mitigating factor they add to their system is this rating in % of which stereo types do people break down into. But this is still inaccurate because the root archetypes are still wrong.

I found it hard to listen to, there are much better.

Fantastic Read

fantastic read! and great audio speaker, his voice was soothing.

cannot wait to read his other books! so happy and grateful i found this author!

this could save you a lifetime of misery in the work force.

cheers mate x

Very insightful

This book gave me valuable insights I can use at work and at home. I also helped me understand why I react to certain people differently. You truly can’t use the same communication technique with everyone.

Great!

Great book! I felt it was spot on. Coming from a 99D 99I 17S 32C

Fabulous!

Insightful and and very easy read! Def going to pay this one forward!

- Red with some yellow and blue