Chapter 2. Combinations of Executive Skills and the Effortful Task

ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND your personal combinations of Executive Skills, you can tweak aspects of your current job and better plan future career moves and potentially new directions. With each skill there are certain characteristics or tendencies you can identify based on your highest and lowest Executive Skills. The combination of your strongest and weakest Executive Skills present the most opportunity.

At the least, knowing your own combination also can show you how much work you will feel like you’re doing when dealing with certain tasks. Although it might be obvious to you that certain things seem easier for some people and more difficult for others, until now you might not have ...

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