“So what you're telling me is, we’re weird.”
A CEO said this to me earlier this month.
I was in Florida leading a two-day session with his executive team, and we'd just finished going through their behavioral assessments.
This was a great team of leaders – highly intelligent and execution-minded. And like a lot of such leadership teams, they were in DISC terms a bunch of D’s: Dominance personalities.
In other words, they were the assertive types who are overrepresented on executive teams, even though D’s only make up 9-15% of the total population.
This CEO was seeing in real time that nearly his entire leadership team was made up of a rather unusual personality type (including himself).
But this team was even weirder than that. They were a financial group, so they also had strong C or Conscientiousness tendencies, very common for people dealing with capital analyses and valuation reports. But most people are not like that.
Now you’re dealing with a team that’s a subset of a subset (highly d…
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