Ronnie Tan

The High Steadiness (S) and High Compliance (C) profile is often the "anchor" of a team—reliable, methodical, and detail-oriented. However, an unprecedented crisis acts like a sudden, steep incline on a road you’ve never driven. To survive, you can't just keep cruising in your high-efficiency gears; you have to downshift for power and occasionally "redline" into a different mode of operation. Here is how to navigate that shift using the gear analogy. 1. Downshifting: From Efficiency to Power...

Have you ever driven all the way home only to realize you don’t remember the last five miles? Or perhaps you’ve tackled a recurring problem at work using the exact same spreadsheet template, even when the data felt like it didn't quite fit? That is your brain being remarkably—perhaps dangerously—efficient. Our brains are energy-hungry organs. To conserve resources, the brain has a natural tendency to automate behavior when encountering frequently occurring situations. In the world of...

In our previous post, we explored how to shift into “Dominance” (D) to overcome hurdles and drive results. But leadership isn’t always about pushing through the terrain with sheer force. Sometimes, the road isn't "steep"—it's disconnected. In the Thomas International PPA (Personal Profile Analysis) framework, the Influencing (I) trait is your engine’s high-revving turbo. It is the energy of persuasion, optimism, and verbal communication. While high Compliance (Accuracy) or Steadiness...