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Factor: N/A
Cluster M: Trouble with people
Career staller and stopper 102: Blocked personal learner
102. Blocked personal learner

People say you’re stuck in the past. For some reason, you resist learning new personal and managerial
behaviors. You’re the last to get on board a new initiative. You’re from Missouri (the “Show Me” state)—
we have to prove it to you before you’ll move. Surveys done with a major outplacement firm show that
those most likely to be let go during a downsizing have good technical and individual skills but poor
learning to do anything new or different skills. You can’t survive today without keeping you and your skills
fresh. There’s not much room anymore for someone stuck in the past.

“I do not think much of a man who
is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the United States

A problem
• Is closed to learning new personal, interpersonal, managerial, and leadership skills, approaches, and
tactics.

• Prefers staying the same, even when faced with new and different challenges.
• Is narrow in interests and scope.
• Uses few learning tactics.
• Doesn’t seek input.

• Lacks curiosity.
• Is not insightful about self.

Not a problem
• Eager to learn; interested in what’s new or better.
• Has broad interests and perspective.
• Seeks and listens to feedback.
• Takes criticism to heart.

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