Ready, Fire, Aim by Melissa Carbone

Author:Melissa Carbone [Carbone, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946885050
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.

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COMPETITION

During my first year in Los Angeles, after I had been transferred from Clear Channel in Connecticut, I was told by my new management team that all of the executives were going to be given a Gallup assessment of our strengths.

Gallup is a highly credited, personality-testing organization that is often used by everyone from employers to the FBI to the government . . . even to help profile fugitives. Their assessments are valued as highly accurate. They are a great tool for creating a culture to manage people based on their strengths. I grew to really like these assessments and started to give them to my employees as I moved into management as well.

I took my Gallup StrengthsFinder assessment, which spit out thirty-four strengths in order of their dominance in my personality. The claim is that everyone has some degree of all thirty-four of these strengths, but the volume is turned up higher on some than others, and it’s different in everyone. The top five are known as your “Signature Strengths” and the ones that, for all practical purposes, determine who you are.

My top five or Signature Strengths were (in order): Competition, Achiever, Responsibility, Futuristic, Focus. I mean, can you say heart attack waiting to happen? That is some galactically intense shit. Number six was Activator.

My dominant strength is competition. Sounds about right.

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