PeopleSmart in Business eBook - The Platinum Rule

high results-orientation can manifest in an overextended work pattern.
When this happens, they pay a high price for their success—their
personal and social lives may fall apart from neglect while their workrelated
attainments accumulate.
Dominant Directors can juggle faster than the eye can see
When the Dominant Director perceives others’ output as less than
exemplary, he may react with a message to stimulate others to action:
“Don’t just stand there. Do something!” Dominant Directors typically
show administrative and leadership qualities that refl ect their ability
to initiate and accomplish tasks, then juggle them.
Th ey have the ability to pick up three balls (tasks) and keep them
all in the air at the same time. Th ey’re multi-phasic behavior specialists—able
to simultaneously do many things well. Aft er adapting to
juggling three balls, they pick up another and another. Th ey end up
juggling all of them faster than the eye can see where one begins and
the other ends. However, the pressure mounts as they try to maximize
the quantity of tasks or the quality of results.
Logically, it makes sense to drop one ball to relieve some of the pressure.
Not so with the Dominant Director. Admission that they can’t
do it all tarnishes their macho image. Th ey like impressing other styles
with their workloads until they get bored or tired of not-enoughhours-in-the-day
balancing acts. Th en they drop everything to take
up a new direction or focus for their activities until they tire of the
same pattern again. Dominant Directors typically refer to this as reordering
priorities.
Effi ciency is the name of the game
Adult Dominant Directors oft en like to accumulate items—especially
ones they think will save time or money. Effi ciency is the name
of the game. One Dominant Director told us he’s so impatient that he
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