The Social Mind And Education

People regularly tell me that they have produced their best work when they shared an office with someone else on the project or worked in war-room seating. Some say that they enjoyed the quiet of their private offices but produced better work when they didn't have a private office. Others, however, are so strongly attached to their private offices that they would quit rather than move into a shared workspace. That may be too high a price to pay for communication. Personality-Matched Work Assignments For people to perform as well as they can, it helps if their job assignments are aligned with the strong points of their personalities, not their weak points. Methodologies name the roles that must be present on a project but don't mention the personality characteristics required for each role. Here are three examples of a person whose personality characteristics did not match those required for the role. The Socially Minded Manager Once, on a large multiteam project, the cross-team manager was socially minded to the extent that he did not want to offend anyone ...»