We built an iOS app for personalized 2-minute leadership tips (think Duolingo for learning how to lead or just work better in teams).
One of the challenges we've run into is the fact that there are several different working styles - there's no universal "right" way to lead. We found an interesting way to solve this problem using a model from Stanford. Here's a quick write up, that I hope you'll find interesting both from a technical perspective and for leading/building teams.
That way it is actually saying something about your priorities at work and is more directly linked to your behavior at work.
16 personalities is a typical personality test, based on a trait-based approach: Myers-Briggs (originally based on Jung's theory). The Stanford model we use is based on the work of Prof. Charles O'Reilly, who was studying team and company culture and how that relates to performance and satisfaction at work.
So the model we used in the product basically measures more "what's important to you at work" and what your priorities are rather than "who you are" based on a pesonality model.
That also means that your mindset can change over the course of even just a few weeks, while personality is something more stable.
It feels strange to see vague claims that this is based on “model from Stanford” with zero citations or even attribution to the model.
Prof. Charles O'Reilly -> https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/charle...
The model we're using is called: OCP (Organizational Culture Profiling => which measures the norms on individual, team and company level) and here are a few papers that are using it too: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1059601114550713 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5785r45z
Summary of the model by our team -> On 14 archetypes: https://bunch.ai/blog/14-leadership-types/ On company culture: https://bunch.ai/blog/company-culture/
