ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses ten traits which includes six personality characteristics: self-confidence, decisiveness, resilience, energy, flexibility, and emotional maturity; two classic motivational drives: the willingness to assume responsibility and the need for achievement; and two value orientations: personal integrity and a service mentality. Traits are stable characteristics or dispositions, comparatively innate or learned early, and are amenable to modest adjustment over time. Self-confidence is a general sense about one's ability to accomplish what needs to be accomplished. Decisiveness is the ability to act relatively quickly depending on circumstances without excessively damaging decision quality. Energy contributes heavily to task accomplishment and indirectly to a drive for achievement and a willingness to assume responsibility. Flexibility is the ability to bend without breaking, to adjust to change, and to be capable of modification. Emotional maturity is a conglomerate of characteristics indicating that a person is well balanced in a number of psychological and behavioral dimensions.
