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Steve Williamson
Innovator/Banker - VP Digital Content at eRep
Steve Williamson writes about work, teams, and the practical challenges of building systems that have to function in the real world. His background spans three decades of project management, software development, and technical team leadership across a range of industries. Outside of eRep, Steve is the author of a series of fantasy novels and most recently a murder mystery set in Portland, Oregon, and enjoys cycling and old-school tabletop role-playing games.
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Articles
Personality Lessons From Classic Cinema
- By
- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
- 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 Content at eRep
- 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 Content at eRep
- 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 Content at eRep
- 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 Content at eRep
- 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 Content at eRep
- 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?
The Secret to a Successful Career (Is You)
- By
- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
- Posted
- June 17, 2024
Inspirational quotes on social media will only go so far in helping you achieve your goals. You are unique and understanding your talents and innate, unchanging personality is where you'll find the answers you need to achieve success.
The Experience Equation: You Plus Me Equals Us
- By
- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
- Posted
- June 10, 2024
The next time you're having a conversation with someone and what they're saying is impacting you in a meaningful way, realize that your own personality is also shaping and influencing how you receive it.
The Secret Skill of Effective Leaders
- By
- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
- Posted
- June 3, 2024
Do leaders need power-based personalities to be effective? Is a domineering style required to succeed in positions of leadership? We unlock the secret skill great leaders embrace that sets them apart. Can you guess what it is?
Mittens for Snakes (The Value of Advice)
- By
- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
- Posted
- May 27, 2024
Social media is flooded with advice. Live, laugh, love. Yada yada yada. Is the point of all this advice to improve people's lives, or to make the giver seem more healthy, wealthy and wise than the rest of us?
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