Human personality

I am reminded of an interesting observation about human personalities and what to do about them by one of my friend. Apparently the source of this interesting topic comes from a German General during the 1st world war.

Given 4 kinds of human personalities namely

1) Ignorant and lazy.
2) Smart but lazy.
3) Smart and hardworking
4) Ignorant but hardworking.

What do you do with a person with any one of the above personalities?

Quickly hired the person with personality item (3). People who are smart and hardworking are valuable resources and asset to any organization. These are the people who make things happen.

Leave those with personality item (1) alone if you have such people within your organization; they won’t do much harm if they exists within your organization, neither do they ever contribute to the growth of the organization. On the other hand avoid hiring such people if you can at all cost.

Promote those with item (2) quality to become managers and leaders within your organization. These are the people who are able to improve the efficiency and productivity by constantly finding ways to get things done using less resources, time and energy.
Get rid of the people within your organization with item (4) quality. It is definitely most unfortunate for any organization to have such people as managers or decision makers within an organization. These are the people who waste the organization resources and time unnecessary by setting wrong priorities and having valuable resources to work on the wrong things at the wrong time!

So there you go, 4 personality types and what to do about them.