The Explorer

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Curious Systems-Centric Dispassionate

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Your Builder Profile

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As an Explorer, you’re a tenacious problem solver. Your motivation to build stems from a deep curiosity in the way systems operate and a desire to address intriguing problems within them. Your decision-making style is linear, rational, and fact-based; once hooked on a problem, you fixate on designing and executing your solution. You take a hands-on approach, and lead by attracting and inspiring those similar to you. Entrepreneurship is not necessarily your primary goal, but rather the method through which you build and commercialize your solutions.

Motivation

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Your Builder Snapshot:

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Decision Making

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You're highly motivated and systematic. You believe that every problem should be broken down into its constituent parts and carefully analyzed, and that the best decision will be identified.

You see entrepreneurship as a systematic way to commercialize and scale solutions to the knotty problems that you are most curious about.

Management Approach

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Hands-on and directive. You expect everyone to be as systematic and curious as you are.

Leadership Style

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You tend to attract similar systems thinkers and build confidence in others after they have demonstrated systematic problem solving and deep knowledge. You see others’ successful management of key areas as a source of freedom to spend time where they can be most valuable to the company’s future.

Skills

Systems thinking and analytics. Focused on constant improvement and solving the next problem.

Scaling

Scaling on the systems side.

Gaps (Weaknesses)

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Scaling on the people side may be problematic, especially in functions outside your interest.

Delegate more and sooner. Focus on next-generation solutions and beyond.

See the system aspects in the softer solution. Share the ball. Delegate to C-level buffers. Show a little humanity.