Do You Create, Compete, Control or Collaborate?
Posted by junger | April 15th, 2008
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We ran a fascinating piece in CE Pro a couple of weeks ago, "The 4 Personalities That Lead to Innovation," that I've been meaning to highlight here.
It covers Jeff DeGraff's Competing Values, which looks at the different types of people and personalities required to make change and innovate in a work environment.
Considering that we're all entrepreneurs, understanding the different types of people one will deal with during a lifetime is crucial.
In short, here are the four personality types and what defines them:
Compete Types are intensely competitive. They are totally focused on performance and goals.
Collaborate Types are the "people" leaders who believe in something greater than the business itself and run their companies to reflect shared values.
Control Types represent incremental innovation by taking something that already exists and modifying it to make it better.
Create Types are all about creativity, innovation and growth. This is the profile associated with radical breaks from the past and breakthrough ideas.
Normally, I hate when people are put into a box. I never like to consider myself as an in-the-box person, but then again, that's exactly what my Predictive Index test said about me.
Jason will most strongly express the following behaviors:
- Flexible approach to 'the book;' often bends the rules and does things his own way. An innovative, out-of-the-box thinker who is undaunted by failure.
(I'm going to post my predictive index results in a future blog — look for it later this week.)
In any case, the article highly suggests that, when forming a team or a workgroup, you need one of each personality. And that's not easy to do, especially because we kind of like being around people similar to us.
So what are you? Do you create, compete, control or collaborate?
