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The Type of Team Diversity You’re Probably Not Paying Attention To

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Grammarly Head of People Itamar Goldminz shares a model that can help managers build stronger teams — and become more intuitive, effective leaders. A couple of years ago, on a mission to hack his team-scaling efforts,  Itamar Goldminz suppressed an eye roll and picked up a new book, sure he’d be putting it down just as fast. Maybe it was over-the-top language like “breakthrough” and “extraordinary” on the cover. Maybe it was just Goldminz’s own aversion to anything that smells too much like self-help — after all, he’s an engineer by training, a staunch fan of provable ideas. Instead, Goldminz found a concrete model for understanding people that has changed how he works and empowered his organization to thrive. You might even call it a breakthrough. The book was Mastering Leadership, and the model — called the Heart/Will/Head model — defines three “types” of people and how they see the world around them. Goldminz, director of people at Grammarly, and AltSchool before that, has run with

A couple of years ago, on a mission to hack his team-scaling efforts, Itamar Goldminz suppressed an eye roll and picked up a new book, sure he’d be putting it down just as fast. Maybe it was over-the-top language like “breakthrough” and “extraordinary” on the cover. Maybe it was just Goldminz’s own aversion to anything that smells too much like self-help — after all, he’s an engineer by training, a staunch fan of provable ideas. Instead, Goldminz found a concrete model for understanding people that has changed how he works and empowered his organization to thrive. You might even call it a brea

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