This is Post #2 in a Series about Personality Types in Business.
Before I dig into the different personality types I want to cover something important.
There is no such thing as a bad personality. If you’ve ever met someone and thought to yourself, ‘that person has an unpleasant personality’ you’ve actually experienced the bad fruit that comes from someone with weak personal character issues.
Someone with strong personal character will do the right thing and treat people right. They’ll be considerate of others and think of the needs of others before they act. (In business they will focus on providing value to their market instead of just sucking as much money as possible.)
Someone with poor character struggles with doing the right thing. They elevate their needs above others and think the end justifies the means. Selfishness abounds and brings out the worst in any personality.
Every personality type has potential for good and bad and your personal sense of character will have a lot to do with which potential gets met.
Nobody is perfect. So I’m not saying if you ever display negative aspects of your personality that it means that you have poor character – but I will challenge you to recognize that you CAN work to strengthen your character so that what you display to others is more consistently positive.
It isn’t always popular to suggest that there is a right and wrong way to do things – but there are a few tenants that I hope we can agree to.
- Honesty Counts
- Delivering What You Promise Matters
- Providing Value Added Products, Services & Information is Key
- People Are Precious
If you consider your words and actions on a daily basis; if you temper your decisions with a heart for these issues – you’ll do the right thing and the positive traits of your personality will shine out to the world around you.
If you only do things that benefit you – and never care about whether what you profit from adds value to other’s lives – you’ll make money… but I really hope that it isn’t enough.
Thu, Nov 15, 2007
Working at Home