BluePhantom
Educator (of liberals)
As a business manager/owner, I long ago started looking for the best way to assign responsibilities among my staff. Over a period of years, I created a method that is quite unorthodox but it works. My theory is that a team is not as strong as its weakest link, it is as strong as the team's ability to organize itself in such a way where strengths are maximized and weaknesses are covered by others. Thus, I do not assign responsibilities according to job title. I assign them according to individual skills and mind-sets. I began to perform analyses of how people on my staff think and what they focus on and I started to realize that certain focuses determined their political views. I determined the following:
Micro-Focused Individuals are concerned about small things. They are very detail oriented and are experts in short-term strategy. They are offensive-minded and quick to act. If there is a problem they will solve it and solve it fast. Unfortunately, they frequently miss the big-picture and don't have a good grasp of long-term cause and effect. They can get you from point A to point B quickly and smoothly, but they overlook that it will cause other things to happen in reaction. Thus they tend to be like people playing a frenzied game of whack-a-mole where they run around putting out fires of their own creation. But they are fantastic for dealing with intricacies and taking quick, decisive action. They also tend to be very idealistic and believe nothing is impossible. They are just the kind of people I want running daily operations on the front lines. I have noticed that these people are almost always Democrats.
Macro-Focused Individuals are the exact opposite. Small details are not as important as the big picture. They are ok if a few minor things are out of whack so long as the balance of the whole is not disrupted. Defensive-minded and slow to act, they are experts in long-term strategy. As they have a deep appreciation of long term cause and effect, they have a excellent understanding of how altering A will cause B, C, D, E, and F to change in reaction. Thus, their solutions are usually very effective, well considered, and will cause the minimum amount of chain-reaction turmoil. But it takes them forever to actually do something because they have to consider every possible consequence of their actions to ensure that overall balance is maintained. They tend to be realists and have a habit of dismissing good ideas because they are unlikely to be achievable. They are just the people I want running the top-level management operations. I have noticed they are almost always Republicans.
When the two work together it can be a catastrophe or a beautiful thing depending on how the responsibilities are assigned. I find that when I let my micro-focused, idealistic Democrat set the bar for what we should strive to be, then have my macro-focused, long-term thinking Republican determine the overall strategy we will use in order to reach that goal, and then let my micro-focused, quick-action, Democrat floor managers put that strategy into action, we have an extraordinarily effective team.
Two questions:
a) Do you agree that this describes the two parties accurately, generally speaking
b) Is it possible to structure government the way I structure my staff? Would it work?
Micro-Focused Individuals are concerned about small things. They are very detail oriented and are experts in short-term strategy. They are offensive-minded and quick to act. If there is a problem they will solve it and solve it fast. Unfortunately, they frequently miss the big-picture and don't have a good grasp of long-term cause and effect. They can get you from point A to point B quickly and smoothly, but they overlook that it will cause other things to happen in reaction. Thus they tend to be like people playing a frenzied game of whack-a-mole where they run around putting out fires of their own creation. But they are fantastic for dealing with intricacies and taking quick, decisive action. They also tend to be very idealistic and believe nothing is impossible. They are just the kind of people I want running daily operations on the front lines. I have noticed that these people are almost always Democrats.
Macro-Focused Individuals are the exact opposite. Small details are not as important as the big picture. They are ok if a few minor things are out of whack so long as the balance of the whole is not disrupted. Defensive-minded and slow to act, they are experts in long-term strategy. As they have a deep appreciation of long term cause and effect, they have a excellent understanding of how altering A will cause B, C, D, E, and F to change in reaction. Thus, their solutions are usually very effective, well considered, and will cause the minimum amount of chain-reaction turmoil. But it takes them forever to actually do something because they have to consider every possible consequence of their actions to ensure that overall balance is maintained. They tend to be realists and have a habit of dismissing good ideas because they are unlikely to be achievable. They are just the people I want running the top-level management operations. I have noticed they are almost always Republicans.
When the two work together it can be a catastrophe or a beautiful thing depending on how the responsibilities are assigned. I find that when I let my micro-focused, idealistic Democrat set the bar for what we should strive to be, then have my macro-focused, long-term thinking Republican determine the overall strategy we will use in order to reach that goal, and then let my micro-focused, quick-action, Democrat floor managers put that strategy into action, we have an extraordinarily effective team.
Two questions:
a) Do you agree that this describes the two parties accurately, generally speaking
b) Is it possible to structure government the way I structure my staff? Would it work?
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