Name: Jeff Bezos
Occupation: Founder, president, and CEO of Amazon.com.
Career Highlights: A scientist since his mamma put him in the crib. No, really; he tried dismantling his crib with a screwdriver when he was a toddler. How he managed to get his hands on one as a baby is a question best left to his parents. Bezos also rigged an electric alarm in his room to keep pesky siblings out, and turned the garage into a laboratory. Lambda Lambda Lambda material all the way. And speaking of college, he entered Princeton University for physics, but switched over to computer science and electrical engineering, graduating summa cum laude. As a young professional, he applied his degree to the financial industry until he started Amazon.com from his garage after a cross-country drive. He's now so insanely wealthy that he can seriously consider human spaceflight, and in fact started Blue Origin with that in mind.
Dominant Pattern(s): Organizer. Bezos' scientific precision is as much as part of his corporate life as it is his creative/inventive one. His degrees in engineering and computer science give him away as a fastidious thinker, but also a patient one, neither of which are a bad thing. The beginnings of Amazon suggest an impulsive Visionary side to him as well.
Recommendation(s) for Improvement: Collaborator, big time. Bezos is "known for his attention to business process details," which lends itself to Condé Nast's more colorful description of him as "a notorious micromanager. ... an executive who wants to know about everything from contract minutiae to how he is quoted in all Amazon press releases." For a guy who's so good at organizing people, Bezos doesn't seem like he really trusts them to do their jobs. As someone who believes in outsourcing certain processing/administrative tasks from computers to people, he needs to be less of a nag. Art projects, big messy ones that he doesn't assemble piece by piece, would give the other half of his brain a workout. Sculpture would appeal to his tactile nature, in fact. And of course, some core/centering exercises couldn't hurt.
