The Emotional Intelligence of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI)
One of my special readers recently sent me this link to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI). Beside asking for my opinion about the test he asked whether this instrument could be used to prevent corporate psychopaths from joining the workforce and becoming the CEO as they are 30% more likely to do. The NPI takes 5 minutes to do. It comprises 40 paired elements, a scoring sheet and distribution graph. It is the usual positive asymmetric distribution with the warning that a s.....
Read MoreMyers-Briggs again
One of my special readers, Charles Lowe, recently sent me an article from the Guardian, What personality are you? How the Myers-Briggs test took over the world, asking for comments. I am not a regular reader of the Guardian but I confess the author, Elle Hunt, has written an excellent piece. The article confirms what I have said in previous blogs; the reason people are particularly committed to the first people profiling technique they learn is that the learning process it is a moment of .....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of the Divergent Association Task (DAT)
As the special reader of my blogs knows I am a sucker to for short (5 minutes or less) personality tests. Several days ago, I was sent this blog: Ability To Name Unrelated Words Is A Good Test Of Creativity The blog discusses a new test: the Divergent Association Task (DAT) developed by a team of researchers led by J.A. Olsen of Harvard but including, I am proud to day, researchers from the University of Melbourne. It takes about 4 minutes to do and measures the level of creativity.....
Read MoreBook Review: Ticket to Ride by Peter Lampl
I received copy of this book shortly after its release in June 2021. I went to the back cover and saw the endorsements were from Michael Bloomberg, Boris Johnson, and Gordon Brown. My first reaction was to say to myself, “Peter, where is the Queen?” Seriously this is a terrific book and highly recommended. Peter and I both did an MBA at the London Business School in the early 1970s. When we finished, we did a road trip from San Diego to New York in Peter’s newly p.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
"Put in a sales perspective, I loved your presentation! I got a lot from what you talked about and I will read your book."
Peter Morris, Executive Officer, Lomax Financial Group
Your presentation on 'Lifting your Level of Emotional Intelligence" to 10 CEOs scored an average 8.9 out of 10 for the topic and 8.5 for the presentation which is great. A couple of the attendees gave you a 10 out of 10, and the comments were:
- Great presentation. Very informative.
- Excellent presentation.
- made me think.
Christi Spring CEO Institute. - web www.ceo.com.au.