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Complementary Skills for Management Teams

Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar

Idealab Founder and CEO Bill Gross offers an engaging way of examining the mix of personalities present on management teams, featuring the roles of the Entrepreneur (E), Producer (P), Administrator (A), and Integrator (I). According to Gross, each of us has a dominant type, and individuals of different types often will not see eye to eye. However, the best management teams consist of a strong mix of all four types, working together.