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Do different types of leaders emerge in different markets? How do personality and culture impact cross-border business? Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp spoke with Hogan’s Krista Pederson, managing director of Asia-Pacific, and Anne-Marie Paiement, PhD, senior consultant, about why culture matters. Krista currently…

Hogan founder Robert Hogan, PhD, says that by “know thyself,” the ancient Greeks weren’t talking about simple introspection. Their concept of self-knowledge meant understanding the limits of one’s performance capabilities in any given interaction. Similarly, Hogan’s concept of self-knowledge—called strategic self-awareness—requires understanding how others…

It’s easy to assume that baby boomers, Gen Z, millennial, and Gen X generations all differ significantly. After all, each generation entered the workforce under drastically different conditions. But how different are they in terms of personality? The Science of Personality cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp dive into decades of Hogan personality data to…

When demands on productivity escalate while resource availability and team sizes shrink, the pressure to do more with less fuels stress. With daily stress reaching an all-time high for the second year in a row, employee burnout remains a global challenge.1 Although burnout is the result of unmanaged chronic workplace stress, it’s not an exclusively individual problem. It’s also…

One of the greatest challenges of any new leader is to select their leadership team. Maybe some of their team is already chosen for them so they have to decide whether to keep those employees or not (if they are allowed to make these choices). Maybe they are given the opportunity to select others to round out their team. The tendency for most people is to pick people you feel closest to, which…