BDTM·Bright · Deep · Team · Mission
Bright, focused, people-pulling, mission-led.
You're the person teams orient to in the fog. Your steady optimism plus a clear sense of why turns rooms into rallying points — and you can hold that energy for hours without dimming.
Lean into
Use your mood as a leadership tool: be the first to name what's working, in 1:1s and standups. People will mirror it.
Watch for
Lighthouses can over-shine. If everyone keeps coming to you for energy, you're subsidizing the team — protect your dark hours.
Try this week
Block a 90-min 'unreachable' window this week. Tell the team. Notice how it lands.
BDTC·Bright · Deep · Team · Craft
Bright, deeply absorbed, with a crew, making brilliant things.
Joyful and obsessive in equal measure. You collect collaborators like a conductor collects players, and the work you make together has texture only group craft can produce.
Lean into
Curate the room before you start the work. Who's in the band matters more than the brief.
Watch for
When the crew isn't right, the joy goes flat fast. Don't power through a wrong-fit ensemble — recast.
Try this week
Have one 30-min 'why we work well' chat with a teammate you love working with. Capture what makes it click.
BDIM·Bright · Deep · Independent · Mission
Bright, focused, solo, mission-led.
You see further than the room and walk steadily toward it, even when no one's walking with you yet. Your optimism is the rocket fuel for ideas that take years to land.
Lean into
Write your vision down often, in your own words. The page is your team.
Watch for
Visionaries can lose patience with people catching up. Translate, don't tower.
Try this week
Send one person a 5-sentence 'where I think we're going' note. See what they reflect back.
BDIC·Bright · Deep · Independent · Craft
Bright, deep, solo, craft-driven.
You disappear into the work and come out with something the team didn't know to ask for. Mood plus craft plus solitude is a recipe for taste — yours is sharp.
Lean into
Make taste visible. Show your drafts more often; it's a kind of teaching the team needs.
Watch for
Artisans can ship late chasing a private bar. Pick a public-facing 'good enough' before you start.
Try this week
Share one in-progress thing this week with a quick 'here's what I'm trying' note.
BWTM·Bright · Wide · Team · Mission
Bright, scanning, connecting, mission-led.
You're the spark in the room. Wide-band attention plus high mood plus team energy means you make connections nobody else sees — between people, projects, ideas.
Lean into
Schedule the introductions you keep meaning to make. Each one compounds.
Watch for
Catalysts start more than they finish. Pair with a closer or set a 'no new fires' day each week.
Try this week
Make 3 specific introductions. Use the format: 'X meet Y, here's why this matters now.'
BWTC·Bright · Wide · Team · Craft
Bright, broad, people-led, making it happen.
You hold the whole show in your head — the people, the plot, the deadlines. Your optimism keeps everyone moving even when the script changes mid-episode.
Lean into
Document the unwritten rules of your team. They live in your head; that's a single point of failure.
Watch for
Showrunners burn out quietly. Your team feels great while you fade. Track your own fuel weekly.
Try this week
Pick one meeting you run. Hand it to someone else for two weeks. Notice what changes.
BWIM·Bright · Wide · Independent · Mission
Bright, curious, solo, mission-led.
You find paths no one else has bothered to look for. Optimistic enough to believe the way exists, solitary enough to wander far, mission-driven enough to come back with a map.
Lean into
When you spot the path, narrate the route, not just the destination. People want to walk it with you.
Watch for
Pathfinders can drift. Set a checkpoint date with one trusted person and stick to it.
Try this week
Pick one 'I keep meaning to look into this' thread and spend 2 focused hours on it.
BWIC·Bright · Wide · Independent · Craft
Bright, broad, solo, craft-driven.
You're a workshop on legs. Wide curiosity + a maker's hands + cheerful solitude = a constant trail of clever things in your wake. Some of them will be quietly important.
Lean into
Publish more of what you make, even rough. The world calibrates on shipped weirdness.
Watch for
Tinkerers underestimate their own output. Keep a one-line log of every weird thing you ship.
Try this week
Pick the smallest thing you've prototyped privately and post it where one person will see.
GDTM·Grounded · Deep · Team · Mission
Grounded, focused, team-led, mission-driven.
You hold the team together in the hard parts. Calm under load, deeply attentive, present for people — your reliability is the foundation others build careers on.
Lean into
Make your presence legible. Stewards often go unnoticed because nothing breaks; tell people what you're protecting.
Watch for
Stewards absorb stress they're not asked to carry. Be honest about the load.
Try this week
Write down the three things you're quietly carrying. Share one with your manager.
GDTC·Grounded · Deep · Team · Craft
Grounded, deep, with a tight crew, shipping.
Calm, focused, in a small circle — you make things that last. Builders don't need spotlight; they need a clear brief, a few teammates they trust, and the time to do it right.
Lean into
Protect the tight-crew structure. Don't let your circle keep widening; it dilutes the throughput.
Watch for
Builders can outgrow their crew. Notice when you're carrying others vs. building with them.
Try this week
Have one direct chat with someone in your inner circle about what's working and what's draining.
GDIM·Grounded · Deep · Independent · Mission
Grounded, focused, solo, mission-led.
You quietly design the systems companies are built on. Calm depth + solo time + a sense of where it all should go = the kind of mind that gets dragged onto every important decision eventually.
Lean into
Make the system visible. Architects' value is invisible until they leave; counteract that.
Watch for
Architects undersell themselves because the work feels obvious to them. It isn't.
Try this week
Pick one system you designed. Write a 5-bullet doc explaining why it's shaped that way.
GDIC·Grounded · Deep · Independent · Craft
Grounded, deep, solo, craft-driven.
Heads-down. Output-strong. The work IS the meaning. Forges are the quiet engines of any team — when one disappears, you suddenly notice how much got made there.
Lean into
Set up the conditions for deep work and defend them. Forges don't multitask; don't try.
Watch for
Forges can over-isolate. One 30-min weekly check-in with a teammate is non-negotiable.
Try this week
Identify your two best deep-work hours and put a recurring block on the calendar for the next month.
GWTM·Grounded · Wide · Team · Mission
Grounded, broad, people-led, mission-driven.
You read every room and steer it toward what matters. Calm, curious, well-connected, purpose-anchored — you're the person who can move a contentious decision without anyone losing face.
Lean into
Use your read of the room out loud. People want to know what you're noticing.
Watch for
Diplomats can over-mediate. Sometimes the team needs you to take a side, not balance one.
Try this week
Pick a decision you've been holding neutral on. Write down what you'd choose and why.
GWTC·Grounded · Wide · Team · Craft
Grounded, broad, people-led, building.
You translate between worlds. Engineers ↔ designers, exec ↔ team, vision ↔ ship date. Calm breadth plus a builder's hands means the in-between is your home, and you ship the connective tissue.
Lean into
Name the translation. People often don't notice the bridge until it's gone — point at it.
Watch for
Bridges absorb friction from both sides. Track who's actually paying you for that work.
Try this week
Pick a translation you do regularly. Write the one-pager so someone else could do it too.
GWIM·Grounded · Wide · Independent · Mission
Grounded, broad, solo, mission-led.
You map the territory others rush across. Calm and curious in equal measure, working alone but with a strong sense of why the map matters, you find structure in places that looked like noise.
Lean into
Publish your maps. The artifact is the contribution; the map without the publish is a notebook.
Watch for
Cartographers can over-map. Set a 'this is good enough to share' bar before you start.
Try this week
Pick one fuzzy area in your work. Spend 60 min sketching the territory and send it to one person.
GWIC·Grounded · Wide · Independent · Craft
Grounded, broad, solo, craft-driven.
Quiet polymath. Whatever needs doing, you can do — and often have. Calm, wide-ranging, working alone, motivated by the doing itself — you're the secret weapon every team eventually realizes they have.
Lean into
Make your range legible. Generalists get pigeonholed when the org only sees one thread.
Watch for
Generalists can drift into 'whatever's on fire'. Pick a season-long anchor each quarter.
Try this week
Write down 5 things you've shipped this year that aren't in your job description.