7 June 2010

Tests show CEOs are wired differently

A recent US study using an online personality test has revealed that the brains of CEOs are wired differently than most people.

When 877 members of USA TODAY's CEO panel took the online personality colour test, they were three times more likely to favour magenta than the public at large, three times less likely to select red, and three times less likely to choose yellow.

According to psychiatry professor Rense Lange - an expert on psychometric tests and personality tests - the study shows that CEO's are often wired in counterintuitive ways. For example, the colour test shows that the typical CEO is more sensitive and private than the typical person and is less likely to be a perfectionist or to be dominant and more likely to be emotionally unstable.

Meanwhile Dewey Sadka, who has spent the last 15 years refining the colour test, is reported as saying CEOs are not as self-assured as the public at large, and they are more cooperative and less forceful than the typical person.

The online test takes about 60 seconds and is almost entirely visual. It asks people to click on colours, sometimes ordering as many as 15 colours from favourite to least favourite.

The results turn out a personality profile that is far from perfect, but is proving to be as valid as more established and lengthy verbal tests such as Myers-Briggs. According to USA TODAY results can steer people toward a career that matches their personality and strengths with jobs they might find enjoyable.

 

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