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Exercise Good Judgment by Applying the Science of Personality
Good Judgment explains what the science of personality is and how it works, and how all of us can use it to improve our working relationships, careers, and lives.
Good Judgment explains what the science of personality is and how it works, and how all of us can use it to improve our working relationships, careers, and lives.
Everyone can benefit from enhancing their Good Judgment, especially:
CEOs, board members, and investors seeking an advantage in their analysis, negotiation, communication, and leadership toolkit.
HR and career development managers tasked with hiring and training using objective processes and evaluations.
Life-long learners, young professionals, and business students seeking efficient advancement in their careers and lives.
Sales and negotiation experts looking to quickly read, understand, and connect with others.
Parents, coaches, and other individuals who believe that the better and more accurately we understand each other, the stronger and more mutually beneficial our relationships can be.
The Personality Blueprint
Dr. Richard Davis’s Personality Blueprint is tailored to generating helpful information as you make practical decisions about people by categorizing insights in one of the following boxes:
- Intellect—How People Think
- Emotionality—How People Express Emotions
- Sociability—How People Engage with Others
- Drive—Why People Do What They Do
- Diligence—How People Get Stuff Done
With this Blueprint in hand, you’ll be much better placed to understand others and make high-stakes decisions about whom to hire, fire, promote, partner with, and more. You can also use the Blueprint to make big decisions in your personal life, including whom to date or marry, whom to befriend, which nanny to hire for your children, and how best to manage these and other relationships.
The Personality Blueprint
Dr. Richard Davis’s Personality Blueprint is tailored to generating helpful information as you make practical decisions about people by categorizing insights in one of the following boxes:
- Intellect—How People Think
- Emotionality—How People Express Emotions
- Sociability—How People Engage with Others
- Drive—Why People Do What They Do
- Diligence—How People Get Stuff Done
With this Blueprint in hand, you’ll be much better placed to understand others and make high-stakes decisions about whom to hire, fire, promote, partner with, and more. You can also use the Blueprint to make big decisions in your personal life, including whom to date or marry, whom to befriend, which nanny to hire for your children, and how best to manage these and other relationships.
Dr. Richard Davis’s Personality Blueprint is tailored to generating helpful information as you make practical decisions about people by categorizing insights in one of the following boxes:
- Intellect—How People Think
- Emotionality—How People Express Emotions
- Sociability—How People Engage with Others
- Drive—Why People Do What They Do
- Diligence—How People Get Stuff Done
With this Blueprint in hand, you’ll be much better placed to understand others and make high-stakes decisions about whom to hire, fire, promote, partner with, and more. You can also use the Blueprint to make big decisions in your personal life, including whom to date or marry, whom to befriend, which nanny to hire for your children, and how best to manage these and other relationships.
“Through engaging, real-world examples, Richard Davis offers expert and seasoned advice on how to become a successful leader, including some very specific tips and strategies on how to be the most effective version of yourself. His proven insights will be helpful for anyone – in any industry – looking to elevate their game.”
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Adam Silver, NBA Commissioner
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“Good Judgment is an instantly engaging, well-written and important book about the value of having insight into others. Richard Davis articulates why it matters, the science behind it, and how to actually develop it. Read this book if you want to make good decisions about people.”
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Amy C. Edmondson, Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School; Author of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well
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"This excellent book gives you an insider’s view of some of the skills psychologists use to have good judgment about people. Good Judgment is filled with valuable tools to gain insight into the unique personalities of people and help you make better decisions as a result - at work and well beyond!"
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Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, Author of Transcend and Host of The Psychology Podcast
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“No CEO will succeed without the right team around them. In Good Judgment, Richard provides leaders with additional tools to better understand the people they hire, develop, and work with. A provocative and practical blueprint for how to look inside the minds of others to forge meaningful, trusted, and long-lasting relationships.”
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Constantine Alexandrakis, President and CEO, Russell Reynolds Associates
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"A critical book that will forever change your understanding of leaders and their social skills. Richard Davis has done a brilliant job bringing the theory to practice, to clearly illustrate the critical value of good judgment in leaders"
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, PhD, Professor of Business Psychology at Columbia University and Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup
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"Good Judgment is an invaluable resource for leaders, as well as those who coach and support them. Clear-eyed and insightful, it creates a mechanism for understanding what makes people tick and, more importantly, how they might work better. If you lead people, or even if you work with them, you need to read this book."
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Jerry Colonna, author of Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong
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About
Richard Davis
Dr. Richard Davis is an organizational psychologist and managing director at Russell Reynolds Associates. He has extensive experience advising CEOs, including those leading Fortune 100 companies or otherwise in the public eye.
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-The Personality Blueprint is a ten-page companion sharing the way to categorize insights into people’s personalities to capture their core characters and accurately predict their behavior.
-The Personality Cheat Sheet for an easy way to reference the most common cues for each dimension of personality as you sort your quick, initial impressions of people.
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The Intangibles of Leadership: The 10 Qualities of Superior Executive Performance
In The Intangibles of Leadership, Management Psychologist Richard Davis, Ph.D., uncovers patterns in the attributes that truly distinguish those who succeed at the top. What he found was that extraordinary leaders possess certain characteristics that fall between the lines of existing leadership models, yet are fundamental to executive success. Davis explains each of these qualities, the people who exemplify them, how to detect them in others, and most importantly, how to develop the subtle characteristics that will enable them to stand out from the pack.