Why Are Conversations With the Same Personality Type So Boring?

[Truity]( New at the Truity blog: Why sometimes opposites attract [Why Are Conversations With the Same Personality Type So Boring?]( Quick personal story. A few years ago, I met a woman at a real estate conference. (Yawn, right? Sometimes, I wonder how I survived my previous career). Two things were remarkable about this interaction. One: the woman was an INTJ. Two: she knew she was an INTJ, which in the circles I reluctantly socialize in, is uncommonly rare. We swapped business cards, kept in touch and tried to be active friends. A glass of wine after work. Another glass of wine after work. It lasted for a few weeks. Then….. it fizzled. For reasons I’ll elaborate in a moment but which basically boil down to this: we were just like peas and carrots. Trust me when I say that mutual unrelenting understanding looks great on paper. In reality, when you’re as argumentative as I am, having someone agree with you on all the points is enough to make you want to poke your eye out with a cocktail umbrella. So, why is it that opposites attract? [Read More]( [Networking by Personality: Tips for Managers]( Birds of a feather flock together, as the aphorism goes, and it's just as true for humans as it is for groups of animals in the wild. We all have a tendency to associate with people of similar personality to ourselves based on our shared attributes. This can affect our social networks. To cut a long story short, most of us have a stable network of contacts who look a lot like ourselves. What we're lacking are challengers, opinion leaders and mentors that can add a little salt to the soup. For managers, this is a problem. Getting people to network effectively and build alliances – both within and outside the organization – is often a key part of the job. When your employees surround themselves with people who think the same way as them, they're missing vital opportunities to try out new perspectives and develop their own ideas. They're also missing opportunities to open doors for the business. So, how can managers encourage networking based on their employees personality types? [Read More]( [Truity]( 21999 Del Puerto Canyon Road Livermore CA 94550 USA No longer want to receive these amazing, insightful, incredibly enlightening emails? Well, to each his own. Click below to... [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [Unsubscribe]( | [Change Subscriber Options](