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What kind of manager are you?
What you will learn in this chapter
- What kind of personality and management style you have and why it matters
- Understanding and using your strengths to have a positive impact on others
- How to develop an ethical framework for taking management decisions
- How to handle stress and maintain a work–life balance
Who are you?
The answer to the question, ‘What kind of manager are you?’ begins with who you are as a person. Yet one of the most difficult tasks for a manager is developing self-awareness. That is why so much of modern management development focuses on psychological profiling to help managers better understand themselves.
The most widely used of these personality assessments is called Myers Briggs.1 Indeed, ...
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