Sublime

The DISC test highlights a person’s relative strengths in each of the four areas—Outgoing or Reserved, and Task Oriented or People Oriented. The area that scores highest will be the person’s dominant trait. Behavioral Styles

List the names of the three to five people (individuals or groups) who matter most to you in each domain of your life—in your work or career, in your home or family, and in the community or society. Write a sentence about why each one of these people or groups is important to your future and why it’s in their interest to aid you.

a “genius with a thousand helpers” model. Instead of building an extraordinary management team like the good-to-great companies, they operated on the fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams.

When we assign a person the wrong role, regardless of whether we move them “up” or “down” in terms of complexity or responsibility, we sow the seeds of discord and discontent, and we hurt our People. If we make enough of these missteps, company morale begins to falter and our Culture suffers. Using this model to our advantage improves the Culture,

The question of what it takes to succeed in a given profession, to deliver the goods and get the job done,

In terms of execution heuristics, perhaps the best is Peter Thiel’s “one thing.” Everyone in the company is responsible for one thing. Each person should at all times know what their one thing is, and everyone should know everyone else’s too.

To get the most out of being a member of a team it is absolutely essential to establish yourself as an integral part of the unit. That is your responsibility, not anyone else’s.

four different personality types, or categories; D—Dominant, I—Influential, S—Steady, and C—Compliant.