chapter 8
Work out your personality fit
‘It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.’
Oscar Wilde (1893)
This chapter helps you to
- •see how personality and work are connected;
- •celebrate your working style;
- •lean towards contexts and roles where your personality fits;
- •anticipate psychometric testing;
- •understand your values and what happens when you take them to work.
Is personality fixed?
The more we understand about personality, the more there is to learn. There’s a good analogy here: genetics. We used to think it was simple to explain how physical characteristics like eye colour are passed ...
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