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Part II: Chapter 2 ‐ The Personality Match

was still relatively young and inexperienced, I was working for a
large corporation in Switzerland after I had finished my business
studies. A position became available in controlling. In terms of my
career development, that was really very exciting - but controlling
was not my world at all: I was an extroverted visionary in a team of
three people in which nothing was said all day except "good morning"
... You can perhaps already guess what happened: "Talent meets
opposite," as I always call it these days in seminars and lectures.

As a yellow-red who has been catapulted into a blue-green
environment environment in which neither inspiring and
challenging communication innovation, and certainly not
creativity and and exchange, felt firsthand what I can now
say and confirm what I can say and confirm today -
supported by studies can say and confirm: If there is a
mismatch (also called dismatching) the consequences for
the individual and the company can be and the company can
be fatal to disastrous.

The aforementioned constellation (i.e. yellow-red person in a blue-
green environment) benefits no one, neither the employee, nor the
team and the department - nor the company. And the personal
effects are equally fatal: How often have I come home in the
evening completely drained of energy and exhausted? That's why
it's so important to help companies, but also recruiters, to match, to
put the right people in the right places and, above all, to identify
and match values and to consistently align careers with them. And
to help them recognize how important it is for a manager to know
which employee to deal with, for a salesperson to know what type of
customer and

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