| STYLE |
% |
PROCESS |
| SYNTHESIST |
11 |
speculative; make new and original things out of |
| MOTTO |
LOOKS FOR |
What if ...?
What's going on here?
What part am I playing in this?
What will go wrong if we go ahead with this?
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Conflict,
Disagreement,
Change, Newness,
Questioning assumption.
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| APPROACH |
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Combining different things to find
--- the "BEST FIT" solution.
Willing to take substantial risks;
Open to ideas; Voicing all sides.
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STATUS
Leader, inventor.
SYMBOL
Integrators,
Troublemakers |
| DISLIKES |
LIKES
|
Status quo, Fact-centred discussion,
Routine, Lack of change, simplistic;
People pretending to agree,
Repetitious or mundane talk.
|
Control over the process; speculative,
Understanding to express concepts;
Do things in a big way; intellectual
argument; Point out absurdities. |
| ASSUMES |
|
That no 2 people are likely to agree about facts.
That conflict is a creative process;
present in any choice. |
PHILOSOPHY
See the world as constantly changing. |
| APPEAR |
PRIDE
|
Challenging, skeptical, irrelevant,
can sound silly, frivolous,
lacking in commitment, aggressive,
satirically amused. |
Creativity, incisiveness,
believe they can have important
things to say;
cleverness.
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PHRASES
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NEED
Achievement
|
Essentially, more or less, primarily,
Isn't that interesting, relatively,
No, that's not necessarily so,
On the other hand. |
| STRATEGY |
STRENGTH
|
Direct confrontation,
Question assumptions,
Third party observation,
Suspending opposing ideas,
Speculation & fantasy,
Play and irrelevance, Devil's advocate
|
Less emotionally stressed than others;
Can be of enormous value in preventing bad
decisions; Can open up new horizons.
WEAKNESS
May ACT OUT when they feel they are not
being listened to; a lack of follow through
and attention to the details. |
| STRESS SYMPTOM: |
Pokes fun.
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The above is a brief outline summarized from this recommended publication:
The Art of Thinking
Allen F. Harrison, Robert M. Bramson
1987 or later edition, 240 pages,
Can $9.50 (Chapters), Can $6.00 (Indigo), US $6.00 (Amazon),
Berkley Publishing Group, and Be Jo Sales Incorp., U.S.A.
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