Reverse-Engineering Leadership: Deconstructing Perceptions of Personality in Generals and CEOs

My topic this year: Reverse-Engineering Leadership: Deconstructing Perceptions of Personality in Generals and CEOs CLICK on this picture to read more!

Once again, here we are in the academic convention/conference season! Our presentation has already gained a lot of interest already, and we have only announced our abstract! Here is what we have said about it so far!

Reverse-Engineering Leadership: Deconstructing Perceptions of Personality in Generals

“What do Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, and retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal have in common? A Q-sort technique was used to identify audience perceptions of personality characteristics of CEOs and generals, and results indicate more similarities than differences. CEOs and generals were not viewed as similar to narcissists.

The practical applications to shape or predict leadership qualities is tremendous. Come see what we discovered, we studied an equal number of military generals and ceo’s ; the results are not intuitive!