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The Most Important Personality Traits for CEOs -- Science of Us

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If you’ve ever waded into the business section of a Barnes & Noble or gotten “thinkfluenced” by any number of LinkedIn influencers, you may have become aware of the fact that management literature is long on opinions and short on data. A voice in the wilderness of thought leadership is University of Chicago Booth School of Business entrepreneurship professor Steven N. Kaplan, who has procured data sets about executives and their personalities of the kind that make social scientists swoon. Cases in point: 316 CEO candidates applying to jobs at 224 companies in a 2012 study or over 2,600 would-be execs assessed for 30 personality characteristics in a 2016 paper. (When companies are looking for a new CEO, they offer hire-assessment companies like ghSMART to figure out what makes candidates tick, thereby producing some fine-grained data if you can get your hands on it.) There are lots of consistency with the people who become CEOs, Kaplan says: They’re more talented than the rest, they’re

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