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This is how I do it: 1. What questions does she ask? 2. Is it fun to talk with her? 3. Does she add depth of thinking to the conversation? 4. Can she hold an opposing thought, without getting flustered?

5. Does he say "she" instead of the more popular male reference (he) to avoid giving hints of chauvinistic tendencies?

1. Connected thinker -sees connection between disparate outcomes. 2. Complexity manager -sees core drivers in a noisy space. 3. Listener and synthesizer -listens to what you says and synergizes with their own experience. 4. View of long history. 5. Knows what they don't know.

Yes, yes. But how do you judge and evaluate this? Take any - sees connection between disparate outcomes - but what if you can’t see those connections or see that they connect.

Organizes the world in ways I’ve never seen or heard.