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The $100 MBA Show

MBA51 Understanding and Managing Type-B Personalities

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Not everyone you work with will be a super ambitious, go-getter leader type. And that's a good thing. Type-B personalities have incredibly valuable qualities, IF you know how to utilize them. Learn how in today's episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello!

0:07.0

Welcome to the 100-R-M-B-A show where time is money and that's why our daily business lessons are only 10 minutes.

0:16.4

I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar Zenholm.

0:19.6

I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online.

0:25.0

And today you will learn how to understand and manage type B personalities.

0:30.9

Not everybody is a leader.

0:32.1

Not everybody wants to be a leader. There will be people that you will have to work with that are like this and you need to be able to manage them in a different way in a specific way and that's what we're going to talk about today.

0:42.0

Let's get down a business.

0:44.0

First of all, what is a type B personality?

0:50.0

They say type A, type B.

0:55.0

Type A is generally seen as somebody who's a go-getter, a leader, somebody that kind of likes

1:00.0

the limelight doesn't mind being on stage, isn't mind getting attention and

1:03.7

being the focal point of attention, type B's are a little bit different.

1:08.1

They don't necessarily seek out leadership opportunities.

1:11.0

They may not enjoy being a leader. There's nothing wrong with these

1:14.8

people. These people are fantastic. They're great. They like working on their

1:18.1

craft. They like working on the tasks that they're working on. And they take

1:21.1

pride in that and that's enough for them. They may not need

1:23.4

any kind of external accolades to feel good about themselves and a lot of times

1:27.6

type B's shy away from being the center of attention. There are degrees of type B personalities. Some people are

1:34.4

very shy and would hate to be a leader and some are okay if they had to they would do

1:39.2

it. So remember that there there are shades of gray. It's not just black and white.

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