The way you'd want to do this, I think, is take a selection of people and follow up to see who was the most successful. If it was a 10 year study, they could ha

The way you'd want to do this, I think, is take a selection of people and follow up to see who was the most successful. If it was a 10 year study, they could have easily done it. And the traits seem to be derived from little more than subjective assessment. It's hitting my business school BS detector red flags: an arbitrary enumeration of things that has a weird focus on the exact number of them; vague buzzword laden categories; a lack of reference to related studies and papers; pointless citations to tangentially related information; vague implied promises for success, a "call to action," and other techniques used in marketing; and of course if you follow the link to where their "research" is you get a free personality quiz to determine if you have CEO thetans or whatever, and you can learn more about it by giving them money. You know, I think the most valuable thing I got from my business degree is being able to precisely identify the exact flavors of bullshit getting passed around in the business world.