Measure Your Mindset . Seed Your Success!

Does it pay to be your own boss? I have worked in the government, in senior corporation positions and for myself, and I can unequivocally say that working for myself has trumped working for others, bar none! What is it about working for yourself that makes it better than employment? After all, when employed, we don’t have to worry about the next paycheck, and if we maintained a reasonably frugal lifestyle, we could live a very comfortable life. At least that’s what everyone thinks.

You have probably read the brouhaha surrounding the comments about “low-value human capital” uttered by the StanChart CEO Bill Winters. The bank said on Tuesday (19 May 2026) that it would cut about 15 percent of its corporate function roles by 2030, citing AI as the main driver for slimming its ranks. Yet, AI does not have to be your replacement. It can be your partner. Indeed, Bill Winters again, “Some roles will reduce in number, some will change, and new opportunities will emerge."

So, in Part One, I recounted how we discovered that only 13.7% of the respondents in our dataset could definitively be identified as having either the growth or fixed mindset, and the other 86.3% of them had what I would call the "Transitional" Mindset. Yet, this was not our biggest discovery! Diving into the data, we could see that even though a respondent scored an average of, say, 3.9, the dispersion of scores told us a different thing.