Simple Insights…The goal is not replication of personality. It is multiplication of capability and character.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Ideas worth planting
Personality & People
Small thoughts. Strong roots. Truths worth carrying.
Simple Insights…Propensity is neither destiny nor mere possibility. It is a real directional tendency.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Interaction with people is not necessarily care for people.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Your personality is an instrument of your leadership. It is not the definition of healthy culture.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…One of the easiest mistakes a new leader can make is remodeling the organization around his personality and calling it cultural improvement.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Character takes the strengths of personality and places them under the stewardship of love, wisdom, courage, and truth.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Personality helps explain our initial response; it does not excuse an irresponsible one.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Personality helps explain what may make a decision difficult for us. It does not excuse us from making it.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Understanding personality is not the destination. It is a tool that helps us see people more clearly and love them more faithfully.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Learning someone’s personality gives us influence. Influence creates responsibility.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Difference is not a defect in the design; it is part of the design.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Personality influences how behavior is expressed; character determines what we choose to do with the personality we have been given.
~ Leadership Masterworks
The danger is not the personality blend itself. The danger is unmanaged confusion.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Our differences were not a manufacturing error.
~ Leadership Masterworks
We must never demand that someone repent for having a different personality. We must also never allow someone to call sin a personality difference.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Personality affects the manner in which we act. Character reveals the moral quality of what we choose.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Personality describes how someone naturally tends to behave. Character reveals whether someone behaves truthfully, lovingly, responsibly, and faithfully.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Your spouse may need to mature. Your spouse may need to change. Your spouse may need to repent. But your spouse does not need to grow up to become you.
~ Royce White
Fear affects every personality, but it does not wear the same clothing.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Dominant people do not need to become less capable. They need to learn that people are not obstacles standing between them and the objective. People are part of the objective.
~ Leadership Masterworks