Personality Blog

Leadership styles correspond with personality types. For example, I am an ENFP and my corresponding leadership style is Ideological with a smidgen of Change Oriented and Participative.

As I mentioned in part one, leaders can become myopic, focused on their perception of the perfect employee and quite often that perfect employee “looks” much like the person making the hiring decision.

Recently I took off a couple of days to meander on Edisto beach in South Carolina. Walking the beach, smelling the salt air, feeling the warm, damp sand between my tired toes and communing with the sea…

When you consider the leaders with whom you have come in contract, the good, the bad and the ugly, what traits or characteristics stand out as essential for the effective leader?