This book explains all about Thinking Preferences and their impact on motivation and engagement in the professional context. Leadership is about supporting people to cope with change, whilst management is about coping with the change. Leaders set the course, whilst managers are planning and budgeting. Leaders concentrate on developing the personal power of their employees, managers recruit and organise employees. Leaders motivate, managers control. Leaders look out for opportunities, managers look out for constraints. A well led company needs both. This book helps to identify the potential of both and to distinguish one from the other. Also this book is intended to help with finding the best employees – not those, who make the best impression – and with leading them in the optimum way. It supports coaches and trainers in guiding their clients and participants in a more intensive, effective and sustainable way.

It is published in German language by W. Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld. Title: Herausforderung Motivation (The Challenge of Motivation), ISBN 978-3-7639-3898-8. The author of the book is H. Arne Maus, developer and founder of the Identity Compass. In the first week of May 2009 (May 4 - May 10, 2009) it was the "Book of the Week" at the publishers website and in also in one of the leading daily newspapers in Germany the "Hamburger Abendlatt" from October 2 to Oktober 9, 2009.

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Reading this book by Arne Maus, one is pleasantly surprised to find that a book covering such an abstract concept as motivation can be both accessible and understandable. The author takes a plethora of profound scientific insights and by a process of weighing and sorting their value and validity, creates a coherent structure of relationships. Further enhanced by numerous explanatory diagrams, this book takes a complex and potentially confusing subject and presents it to the reader in a simple format. This book presents motivation in ways that allow the information to be readily assimilated and easily used, ...

Mark Hübner-Weinhold, Hamburger Abendblatt, Germany

We confuse ourselves when we make such simplistic statements as . «Women cannot park, and men cannot listen» – To seek to define two genders by using two incompatible quality criteria on the basis of one for each gender, diminishes both. “It is indeed not that simple. What is missing in this statement, is the complexity”, says H. Arne Maus, creator of the Identity Compass®. Albert Einstein frequently stressed that we should : “Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler .”

... Using the principle of "a simply tool to produce complex results". The Identity Compass offers a comprehensive framework for the decoding of thinking preferences, ... shows the Why WHEN and How measures that reveal our thinking and behaving patterns and how different factors in the job motivate and de-motivate us. It offers us a simple way to read and interpret the complexity of over 50 thinking preferences.

Urs Tiefenauer, SeminarInside, Schweiz