Wharton Business School Professor and best-selling author Adam Grant wrote, ” ‘That’s just the way I am’ is a missed opportunity for growth. Personality is not your destiny. It’s your tendency. No one is limited to a single way of thinking, feeling, or acting. Who you become is not about the traits you have. It’s what you decide to do with them.”
I agree (and not just because I have an “agreeable personality“). In my work as an executive coach, I help leaders reflect on how what they say and do — as well as what they don’t say and do — affects the people around them.
