Leading involves influencing others. Leaders, therefore, are people who know exactly what they want to achieve and why. They mobilize other people to influence actions, beliefs and feelings. Over the ...

A great debate between personality trait theorists and social psychologists began in 1968 following the publication of Personality and Assessment, Walter Mischel’s influential book in which he argued ...

As anyone who is familiar with personality trait theory knows, researchers have identified a “big five” of dispositional tendencies that reliably predict human behavioral patterns and show up almost ...

When you start a small business, you are instantly the leader, whether you have had any training in leadership or not. However, there is help. Leadership theories abound, and you can choose the ...

In common day talk we use the word personality often, ostensibly to describe characteristics that we like or dislike about other individuals. But is personality an enduring pattern of behavior or ...