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All right this episode's question comes from Joseph.

Let's play the tape and hear Joseph's question.

Great insight on the type B personalities. I have a follow-up question on that. You

mentioned that too many leaders in an organization can be detrimental.

You use the analogy of too many cooks in the kitchen.

So I'm wondering what you would do as a leader

in an organization like this, whether you either move on to a different organization or adapt

yourself and carry a few more type B personality traits.

Thanks for your question Joseph and thanks for listening to the $100 MBA show.

So I'm going to try my best to answer this question.

It's an interesting question because I was in a similar situation in my career as an educator. When I was a middle manager at the university I was

working at I was one of the managers that was working in the department. There was

eight managers and there's a lot of cooks in the kitchen, a lot of leaders, right?

And what happens is that people that have the power in terms of chain of command would have

the strongest voice, regardless of who's the better leader. And as a leader, I felt very restricted.

I felt like I wasn't able to grow.

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