Warriors, workers, whiners or weasels? (4 posts)

  • Tim O’Leary defines the four personality types in the business world as warrior, worker, whiner or weasel. Do you know which one your are? Do you know which ones you work with? How much attention do you give to personality types in your business? How much attention should you give to this? 

  • @deairby I am most often a worker, as I cannot abide not accomplishiing things, but I am also crossed with a warrior. But, I have struggled on the warrior side as a female–sad to say but women (and I have been in very male dominated industries) who are take charge, aggressive , or strident are not as appreciated for those qualities as are men.

    I’ve actually used Myers-Briggs more, which is fairly accurate in my experience. While it didn’t always solve issues, it usually helped with understanding.

    If you can’t figure it out, I don’t handle whiners well, and umm weasels—the name is repulsive.

    While you don’t want to write someone off, if you are the manager/owner, you can use these scales to help, either to attempt to effect change, or help others to find strategies to cope.  Worst case, you can look at something like a Myers-Briggs to help determine if a candidate will be a good fit.

    After a lot of years of working, I learned that a good fit personality-wise is HUGE.

  • great input @joanmuschampfagnani

  • @deairby LOL… I’m defiantly a Worker. I don’t sleep much always at the keyboard sure signs of a worka-holic.   


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