Think about who you are as a manager and who will mesh with your style. Do you prefer to set short-term goals and check in regularly with each person to monitor incremental progress? If so, you need to surround yourself with direct reports who yearn for structure, detail and regular updates — people with the thinking talent discipline. Or are you the kind of manager who likes to hand off as much responsibility as possible and who sets long-term goals and then expects employees to orient themselves toward those goals without much help from you? If so, your direct reports will need the thinking
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