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The ONE Thing

457. GOOD JUDGMENT: Making Better Business Decisions with the Science of Human Personality

The ONE Thing

NOVA Media

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Most people overestimate their ability to read people’s personalities. This leads to hiring the wrong people for the wrong roles, managing people in the wrong ways, and overall just making life harder for everyone. The good news is that reading people’s personalities is a skill that you can develop and improve. Our guest today, Dr. Richard Davis, has just written a book teaching you how. Richard gives us an overview of his book, “Good Judgment: Making Better Business Decisions with the Science of Human Personality.” He describes the five boxes that make up a personality blueprint: Intellect, sociability, emotionality, drive, and diligence. He teaches us how to study each one in the people who surround us. Richard has spent his career analyzing personalities for top executive hires. It was incredible to have him on the show today to share some of his “secret sauce.” If you're a bold risk taker who wants to dream big and achieve a higher level of success in your life or business, visit the1thing.com to learn about our one-on-one coaching, as well as our exclusive community membership program. *** To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: Dr. Davis’ five “boxes” that make up a person’s personality The difference between emotional intelligence and personality perceptivity The key questions Dr. Davis asks people to learn about their personality Links & Tools from This Episode: Read “Good Judgment” Learn more at RichardDavis.net Free Resources Want to be a guest or share feedback? Email [email protected] Produced by NOVA Media

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This and all other information can be found in the

0:44.3

funds prospectus at fundraise.com slash flagship. This is a paid advertisement. Hello everyone and welcome back to the One Thing podcast. Today we have Dr.

0:58.7

Richard Davis who is an organizational psychologist and CEO of Kilbury recently acquired Kilbury so we're

1:04.4

going to talk about that today too a leading firm of management psychologist that

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provides assessment and development services to investors CEOs CEOs, corporate leaders,

1:12.9

and here to talk about his new book,

1:14.6

good judgment, making better business decisions

1:17.0

with the science of human personality.

1:18.7

Welcome Richard, we're excited to have you.

1:20.7

Thank you, great to be here.

1:21.8

Well, I joked with you before we even started, I was like after this, we're going to need a full assessment.

1:26.7

As someone who is the foremost expert on personalities, I'm going to need a full assessment

1:30.9

of Chris and I when this is over. But I'd love to hear more about, I want to hear more about the acquisition. I also really want to hear about your journey. I mean, some of your resume can feel probably really intimidating to people. You've worked with some of the biggest companies,

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