At work in the leadership space, we’re facilitating meaningful
discussions around the Principles & Qualities Genuine Leadership. In one
of the classes we ask participants to think of a leader they admire and share
what made them great. Sometimes people
talk about the Color Profiles, Myers-Briggs, Keirsey, Strengths Finders or any
other method of assessment, and it’s tempting to look to a successful leader and
try to figure out their profile. Pretty
harmless fun!
What shouldn’t be tempting is to force your style to emulate
someone else’s and expect the same results.
While some of our leaders may ‘lead with red’ or have M-B preferences like
INTJ, there are also successful leaders that are described with different
colors or assessment labels. It doesn’t
make one right or wrong – it’s just evidence that it takes all kinds to make up
a team and a company. For example: I’m proud to lead with green, be
labeled an introvert, and INFP! But
heaven help us if everyone in the company was like me. We’d probably be indecisive and 5 minutes
late - but we’d feel really bad about it! :)
Introverts sometimes get a bad rep since they aren’t as open
or obvious with what they’re thinking or feeling. I’ve seen a lot of articles posted on FB and
LinkedIn lately about introverts and the place they have in business. I wanted to share one I found particularly
interesting.
