The researchers found that the ability to spot the different personality traits was encoded in distinct brain regions.

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One of the traits of creative leaders is their ability to understand complexity and alignment within an organization, as well as its relationship to nurturing and sustaining dynamic organizations and creative leaders.

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Dr. Derek Puddester, a psychiatry professor at Ottawa involved in the research, says that while hard work and self-sacrifice are often valued in doctors, such traits need to be balanced by an ability to cope with stress.

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The school says it asks people who recommend a student to score the applicant on ability to cope with pressure, intellectual curiosity and other traits.

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A. career management center at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School, for the past two years has trained admissions officers to look for the same traits a hiring manager might, such as the ability to assess a problem and self-edit their remarks.

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UBS's Mr. Featherston recently screened 40 candidates for traits including the size of idle energy deposits, the ability to exploit those deposits and pay packages for managers in the event of takeovers.

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Among the leadership traits which have made Steve Jobs so effective as an innovator has been the ability to create an inspiring vision for talented people to work towards and then get out of their way so that they could make full-use of their talents in pursuit of this vision.

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