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Nathan Ott is a big-name


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sectors, there are more


professional vacancies than there are suitably qualified staff to fill
them. Shackled by the tight labour market, Otts clients wanted to know
whether they had hidden gems in their organization that they were
underusing and, mores to the point, how to identify them if they did.
Ott hired expert psychologist Dr John Mervyn- Smith (pictured) to create
an index that would identify game-changers the sort of characters
who have it within them to think imaginatively about how to create the
future for their organizations. These people have the passion often to
the point of obsession to push through their changes, often in the
face of institutional inertia or outright resistance.

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The trouble is that many pure-play game-changers are often somewhat


asocial. They have the ideas and the obsessive determination, but not
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character type and the playmaker character type. These people are

They are quite rare, Mervyn- Smith told Dialogue at the launch of the
Game Change Index yesterday. He added that while game-changers
often struggle to fit into corporate frameworks and loathe business
clichs and jargon, game-changers with playmaker characteristics are
more pragmatic and are more willing to do what is necessary to push
their changes through.
For more information visit www.thegcindex.com

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