🚀 The Pioneer vs Linchpin Test 🧩
Discover your contribution style - are you the trailblazer or the essential glue?
The Pioneer
Trailblazer, risk-taker, builder of new systems. Creates paths where none existed before.
🔥 Builds new sinks
🗺️ Charts unknown territory
💡 Thrives on innovation and creation
⚡ Moves when opportunity calls
The Linchpin
The essential glue, system-stabilizer, institutional memory. Holds everything together.
🧹 Keeps the kitchen running
🧠 Knows where everything is hidden
🛡️ Maintains stability and continuity
💪 Stays when others would leave
The Truth About Contribution:
Pioneers are Mug Washers who got tired of waiting—so they built a new sink elsewhere.
Linchpins are Mug Washers who stay, scrubbing the same dishes day after day, because someone has to keep the kitchen clean.
⚠️ Both are essential. But we reward pioneers with statues and promotions. We reward linchpins with more work and the quiet hope that they never leave.
When a linchpin finally does leave? The kitchen floods. The system breaks. And everyone suddenly realizes who was holding it together.
- 12 scenario-based questions that reveal your natural contribution style
- Discover your Pioneer Score - where do you fall on the trailblazer spectrum?
- Understand your Linchpin tendencies - your stabilizing superpowers
- Learn how your organization recognizes (or overlooks) your contribution
- Get personalized strategies for either path you choose
Takes 4-5 minutes to complete
Your results are private and not stored.
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