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Scenario

How personality assessments can sabotage team dynamics

Our startup team all took the Big Five assessment and mapped out our personalities to optimize collaboration, but now everyone's hiding behind their scores — the low-openness people won't engage with new ideas, the introverts use it to avoid difficult conversations, and we've created this weird culture where your test results matter more than how you actually show up.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

What begins as self-knowledge becomes a prison when we mistake the map for the territory and use insights about tendencies to justify limitations.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Personality frameworks — Big Five MBTI Enneagram?”

Peri

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