The Driver
Energy peaks at Marshaling and Finishing.
A sample curve. People with this type share where their top two peaks sit; how high they go, and the shape of the rest, varies person to person.
You push the people and you push the work, relentlessly, until it is done. You are the force that gets things across the line when everyone else has lost steam, combining the will to mobilize others with the personal grit to finish. You do not need the problem to be interesting; you need it completed, and you will hold both yourself and everyone around you to that. Things simply get done when you are involved.
At their best
You blow through obstacles and make sure work gets finished to standard. You are the engine in the back half of any effort, the person who turns a plan and a deadline into an actual result and refuses to let things quietly die.
Watch out
Your intensity about getting it done can read as pushy, and you can be impatient with the upstream work of questioning and brainstorming that does not feel like progress to you. Not every moment is a sprint, and not every idea worth having arrives on schedule. Make room for the thinking that has to happen before the pushing pays off.
Who they help most
People whose energy drains at Marshaling and Finishing. For them, The Driver is the ideal partner: their energy peaks exactly where those people dip.
The other 14 types