210516 Emotional Intelligence and the PrinciplesYou PersonalityTest
Recently one of my followers sent me link to a personality test that I had never heard of and I believe was launched in 2020. You can read about it and take the test for free at https://principlesyou.com/. The development of the test was funded by Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, and whose net worth is estimated to be US$17 billion. The developers include Dr Adam Grant and Dr Brian Little, whose book Me, Myself, and Us I reviewed in 2015 and I highly recommend. As free .....
Read MoreMen in the Mirror: Rudd & Turnbull — Profiles in Narcissism
Sky News Australia is currently showing a terrific documentary about two former Prime Ministers of Australia: Rudd & Turnbull. You can watch it here. It is called Men in the Mirror because both their stories and their colleagues’ perceptions of them so overlap. The two certainly exhibit all the characteristics of the Dark Triad. My favourite quote was at 43 minutes into the documentary by Stephen Conroy, a former Labour Minister. “Kevin Rudd had contempt for the Cabinet, c.....
Read MoreWhy the Big 3 (MBTI, DISC & NLP) are so pervasive
At the end of my last blog I put forward the hypothesis that the reason people are particularly committed to the first people profiling technique they learn is that in the learning process it is a moment of very high emotional epiphany. For many people, including myself, it is a key “Ah-ha” moment in their life similar in emotionality to marriage and the birth of their children. Several days later I then received corroboration in the form of this recent article from BPS Research Dig.....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence: Type versus Trait
What kicked off this blog was a request from a British participant in a recent Empathy Styles workshop run by Walter Blackburn similar to the one run here. The participant had been investigating human behaviour models over most of her working career and wanted to know how the Empathy Styles Model (aka Humm-Wadsworth aka 7MTF) compared to the Big 3: MBTI, DISC and NLP. I have blogged about the differences with each model but never the Big 3 as a whole so here goes. The major difference.....
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