DC The DC profile: Dominance and Conscientiousness
You want it changed, and you want it right.
Your two elevated dimensions are Dominance — the drive to take control, decide quickly and push through resistance — and Conscientiousness — the pull towards accuracy, evidence and standards that hold up when someone examines them.
That is a demanding combination, and it argues with itself. Where a high D on its own would decide and move on, your C insists that the decision survive examination. And where a high C on its own would keep examining, your D forces the matter to a close. You want the change and you want it correct, and you are rarely willing to trade one for the other.
What this combination gives you
- Problems get named early and then actually solved
- You raise the objection nobody else in the room will raise
- Standards hold under time pressure, because you refuse to trade them away
- Broken things get rebuilt properly instead of patched again
What it costs you
- People hear correction long before they hear anything else, and they stop volunteering ideas
- You decide quickly, then use your rigour to defend the decision rather than to test it
- Anyone slower or less prepared feels judged, and brings you only finished work, or nothing
Characteristics
- Direct, decisive and quick to take control
- Sets high standards and applies them to everyone
- Questions assumptions; sceptical of received wisdom
- Impatient with slow processes and unprepared people
- Independent; prefers to check the facts personally
What motivates you
- Difficult problems with a measurable result
- Authority to change how something is done
- Competence and expertise around you
- Freedom from supervision and from unnecessary meetings
- Clear evidence that the standard was met
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