Personality vs. Character

We live in a culture of personality. Every fruit juice pack, every nerf gun, every medication or sanitary napkin commercial portrays extroverted personalities. Sports, entertainment, and now politics is driven by ostentation displays of personality.

Blame Dale Carnegie, Henry Ford style consumerism, Carl Jung or Addler for stigmatizing introversion but a shift from a culture of character to personality occurred throughout the early twentieth century.

Through acquisitions we have multiple, semi-autonomous eComm teams operating in different countries. The US based team embodies the personality side while the Canadian contingent is quietly competent.

It would be a disservice to either team to say one is better based on an introversion/extroversion scale. They are simply different. The key is to ensure personal bias doesn’t subconsciously favor one over the other but instead nurture the best part of each.