These individuals are highly responsible, mature, conscientious, and duty-oriented.
They are very attentive to detail and show good follow-through. They plan well and
are notably thorough and careful in their work. They are emotionally very “steady”
and even-keeled, predictable, and generally upbeat and optimistic.

They are practical, pragmatic, “bottom-line” types who focus on solutions to problems
rather than abstraction, theory, or philosophy. They are comfortable with routine and
don’t require a lot of change and variability in their work lives.

Finally, they take a generally positive, accepting view of other people, giving others
the benefit of the doubt.

Key Traits
Note: These are traits on which the target group of top performers achieved a group
average, or mean, that was significantly different from the general population mean,
and also had less variation around that mean than would be expected from a
random sample (i.e., standard deviation < 2.0).

Conscientious, responsible, duty-oriented, rule-compliant, versus rule-resistant,
expedient, resistant to authority. (Mean = 8.96)

Detail-oriented, organized, planful, versus disorganized, messy. (Mean = 7.44)

Even-keeled, predictable, resilient, versus moody, emotionally unstable.
(Mean = 7.14)

Pragmatic, concrete, results-oriented, versus abstract, theoretical, philosophical.
(Mean = 3.02)

Conservative, prefers routine, versus radical, experimenting. (Mean =3.27)

Accepting, trusting, sees the positive in others, versus skeptical, cynical,
suspicious. (Mean = 4.44)