Testosterone Types -- Finale

So ... where did I leave off ... ohhh yes ... our last two testosterone types !

As the search continues, we find the next category of testosterone has fewer candidates but they are usually much more pleasant to deal with even if you’re not getting your question answered … Silky Simon. Simon is smooth as silk and an expert spin meister. He does a mean sidestep as well. Simon is a proud man. He is classic, cultured and refined … a Boston blue blood. He is a well-dressed, sometimes classically handsome, charmer. His clothes are meticulous and he carries himself with a confident stride. When he opens his mouth all the right words float out. He can say a lot and nothing at the same time. Ask a question and Simon gives you an answer. The words are carefully chosen but Simon has eloquently danced around a real answer.  Think the finest wine, the smoothest scotch or the most exquisite liqueur … now think testosterone stirred, not shaken, with potable pride. 

While Silky Simon can be something really nice to look at … eye candy in the upper ranks of management … the real trouble is that you don’t know if you can trust him. He seems to say the right things but that little voice in the back of your head, or the pit of your stomach or wherever that little voice lives within you, keeps shouting at you to consider the source and don’t take what is being said at face value. I have learned to listen to my little voice. Inevitably I always regret it when I don’t.  When Silky Simon walks into a room, that voice goes spastic.

Our exploration takes us to the last, and my personal favorite, testosterone type … Testosterone Ted in over his head.  Ted is actually a hybrid. He can be any one of or all four of the other testosterone types. One minute you think you are dealing with regular grade. An hour later hi-test erupts. The next day at the presentation to executive management you might see either vacuum dust or silk … it’s hard to predict. Yet, as with all the other types, there is one defining characteristic that Ted specializes in … he can not execute to save his life or his job … he has no teeth and no spine. He never holds anyone accountable to do their job and certainly does not have the skill to rally anyone to want to do their job.  He can't even stand up to his direct reports much less other corporate executives. Ted might get away with his spineless situation if he’d surround himself with direct reports who could execute for him … but sadly … he doesn’t know how to do that either.

It takes a long time to get rid of a Testosterone Ted in over his head.  Seems executive management takes their sweet time in addressing their problem children, especially when they are in their own ranks.  In the meantime, his direct reports are taking a hit to their credibility by mere association. I speak from experience. Testosterone Ted will suck your own testosterone dry before he is shown the door … with a severance package to boot.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Time to recap -- Your choices are:

Regular Grade Greg -- Testosterone normal levels
Super Sales Sam       -- Testosterone clouded with vacuum dust
Hi-Test Tom             -- Testosterone loaded with arrogance
Silky Simon              -- Testosterone stirred with potable pride
Ted in over his head -- Toothless Testosterone

         Look around ladies. Where do your testosterone peers fit? Look up and down the food chain. There is plenty of testosterone to go around. Is he a Greg or a Simon? Ted or Tom?  Would your female colleagues agree? It might make a fun lunch table topic!

Next topic of discussion:  Beware the Doppelganger ....