The Many Ways Personality Type Can Derail Business Strategy

Did you know that your MBTI personality type preferences can undermine your search for strategic business opportunities? Do you know if you recognize your type preferences from the list of potential derailers below? Contact me if you want to know your type preferences and how these might lead you down the wrong strategic path.

• Subjectively decide what is strategic.
• Copy competitors strategy
• See cost reductions as strategic
• Take entrepreneurial risks
• View Operational Excellence as a Strategy
• Begin strategy with objectives rather than goals
• Automatically rejecting creative new ideas
• Unquestioningly adopt business trends
• Strategic goals based on activism or ideology
• Viewing the latest technologies as strategic
• Risk aversion
• Making emotional, strategic decisions
• Making strategy too complex
• Viewing the planning process as strategy
• Brainstorming strategic ideas