How to make personality traits work?
1. Recognize that people have different personalities. We cannot do much to change them in an adult age (in many cases even after the birth). 2. Assemble a diverse team covering a range of personalities able to effectively respond in different situations. Don’t hope that you’ll find perfect match in one person – all of us have strength and weaknesses. And often you’ll need opposite personalities (I’m against hiring people with multi personal disorder to solve this problem :)). It is true, some people could conditionally switch behavior between opposite trait extremes, but most of us are comfortably operate only in the narrow range. Therefore, we should look for the optimal combination of traits in different people, which compliment each other. Minimal requirements for the software team member: • Respect to other people • Can listen and accept other views • Can learn and change 3. Create an open, honest and tolerant atmosphere and rules where people can resolve diverse opinions and appr
