The Work Archetypes
There's only 3 Types of Personalities at work
The Entrepreneur
This person is in charge of starting things. Starting things is hard, it takes a special kind of mind to do it. They will fail over and over again until they reach critical mass and invent a product or service that starts a revolution. They have to be good at everything, marketing, innovation, business, relationships. selling, manufacturing and even finance.
The Manager
This person is in charge of well, managing. They live and breath people and processes. Their job is to take what the Entrepreneur has made and make it an efficient, lean mean machine! They also are the lifeblood of keeping the working force, well, working great with each other. They are the quintessential middle man.
The Artist/Technician
This person are the Creators of the Work. They have the inspiration on how to finish the product and make it sing. They are the ones who sell the product, they are the ones who finish the product, they are the ones who enhance the product with their paintbrush as it were. It’s there job to get the product into the hands of those that would use it, and to make sure it’s at a caliber they’d expect it to be.
Now, you’d expect that someone can be all 3, and you’re sort of right, Artists can be Entrepreneurial, Managers can paint on the weekends and consider themselves an Amateur Artist, but there is only one mode that you immediately react with. It’s how you think about things without thinking about it. It’s what you do by default that determines who you are. Are you always thinking up ideas and not afraid to fail because you’ll just do something else? You’re an Entrepreneur. Is you default mode to gather people and help them work together towards a cause,? You’re a Manager. Do you like finishing a job you’ve been given no matter the cost, and you do you’re very best to both polish and finish it to become something outstanding and that you’re proud of? Congratulations, you’re an Artist!
Now knowing all this isn’t going to magically make your life better, but if you can figure out, at your core, who you are, you can make more and more decisions in the mode where you’ll end up being way more happy as you act out your role at work.
Until Tomorrow,
Jason Ziebarth
JZ#697