Sublime

These are the people who personify left-brain functionality. Their thinking is linear, rather than non-linear. They specialize in clear, logical, methodical thinking and reasoning, and excel in systematic thinking and analysis.

solution, of course, is to convert the past experience and expertise of the individual into the expertise of the firm by accepting the similar project, but utilizing a greater proportion of juniors on second-or third-time projects.

People aren’t a combination of traits. They are a mosaic of reactions to and interactions with situations. If you can get a person’s behavioral profile—a catalogue of those reactions in an if-then relationship, such as “If I feel threatened, then I will lash out”—you

Interviews and Hiring Hiring involves all the managerial body parts: heart, soul, nose and gut (but mostly gut). Don’t try to do it alone — two guts are more than twice as good as one. Ask new hires to undertake one project at exactly the level of competence they have already proved, to defer real stretch goals till the next time. Ask for pointers:

In 1875, Galton reported that 35 sets of identical twins showed much greater behavioral similarities than 20 sets of fraternal twins, which he took as support for the importance of heredity.

check out Do What You Are, which uses the Myers-Briggs framework to break down hundreds of career options by personality type. Even if you aren’t moved by Myers-Briggs, it’s a useful compendium of every way imaginable to make a buck.

Rigid-patterned people are typically athletic, fit, and active, and their eyes are bright and lively. Looking at them, we see that the body is slender, proportionate, and harmonious, with a sense that movements are integrated and coordinated, although they may be initiated from the periphery, rather than from the core.