In the world of DiSC, I am a straight-up D and I wouldn’t have it any other way but over the years I’ve learned to use my strengths responsibly, especially when other people are concerned. Translation: with age comes emotional intelligence. It hasn’t hurt that previous bosses have been candid with me. One gave me Daniel Goleman’s classic book Working With Emotional Intelligence (yes, I can take a hint) and another just came out and told me there wasn’t room for him in my office because my ego was taking up all the space. Those were the two best bosses I ever had by the way.

I am still untamed when it comes to certain areas though. Being right for instance. I can have strong convictions. For instance, I was at a business conference last week and was recording live interviews for my radio show, The Focus. Because of my strong belief in my instinct and my ability to make good decisions, I insisted that every time we saved a recording a new file would be created despite the skepticism of my co-hosts who repeatedly asked ‘are you sure?’. Of course I was sure, I’m a D!

Well, as is often the case, I was wrong. Instead of 40 nice, neat individual interview files I have 2 solid hours of audio to splice up. Unfortunately for me none of my co-hosts are C’s so I don’t have anyone to clean up my mess and I will be hunkered down splicing audio segments all weekend. After all, a D is nothing if not driven by results. And I will get results, even if it takes all weekend…