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Steve Williamson
Innovator/Banker - VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Steve has a career in project management, software development and technical team leadership spanning three decades. He is the author of a series of fantasy novels called The Taesian Chronicles (ruckerworks.com), and when he isn't writing, he enjoys cycling, old-school table-top role-playing games, and buzzing around the virtual skies in his home-built flight simulator.
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Articles
Fundamentals of Your Personality
- By
- Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- August 26, 2024
Is your personality fluid? Does it change throughout your life or is it set at birth? Can you deliberately change your emotional hardwiring? We use the Core Values Index psychometric assessment to answer these and other questions about your personality.
The Secret Benefits of Teamwork
- By
- Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- August 19, 2024
Very few people are islands unto themselves. Cooperation and delegation are common asks in the business world. Some handle it better than others, all based on their Core Values Index personality profile.
The Best Advice Job Seekers (Almost) Never Take
- By
- Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- August 12, 2024
There is a lot of advice out there for how to write a killer resume or to ace an interview. But there is one piece of advice job seekers need more than ever to take their career to the next level, yet most people never heed it.
Learn to Disagree Well
- By
- Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- August 5, 2024
Disagreeing in a disagreeable manner is a poor way to get things done. How do teams with diverse personalities achieve their goals? There is a secret that can help you learn how to overcome personal differences gracefully and productively.
Personality Lessons From Classic Cinema
- By
- Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- July 29, 2024
From a hiring and leadership perspective, The Great Escape is arguably one of the best examples in cinema of the value of putting the right people into the right seats. It's amazing what you can learn about real world personality by watching classic movies.
What The CIA Can Teach You About Motivation
- By
- Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- July 22, 2024
In the intelligence world, leveraging someone's motivation can determine success or failure of a mission. In the business world, there are some valuable lessons to be learned from the RICE modes of motivation.
Who's Alpha? (There can be only one)
- By
- Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- July 15, 2024
The way we behave is often directly related to who we're engaging with. Some surprising things can happen when the other person has the same Core Values Index personality profile as you.
Felix and Oscar: The Core Values Odd Couple
- By
- Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- July 8, 2024
Felix and Oscar. These two names pack serious imagery of the difference between an uptight neat-freak and an easy-going laid-back personality. We can analyze their personalities today and produce a textbook case study of what it means to be a Banker or Merchant.
What's the difference between you and an AI?
- By
- Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- July 1, 2024
Being able to identify motorcycles in a photo collage doesn't make you smarter than an AI. What separates you from a LLM supercomputer is your personality, and the Core Values Index is here to show you how.
Now, Nice, Wise or Safe
- By
- Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- June 24, 2024
Even though there are over 8 billion people in the world, you can distill their personalities down to the presence of four characteristics: now, nice, wise and safe. How much of those four do you have?
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