Le gustaría escribir una cita o proverbio que hable sobre el talento Prudente?
Sunday, August 17, 2008
DELIBERATIVE (Prudente) quotations & proverbs
Please post your favorite quotes and proverbs with regard to the Deliberative talent!
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"All military services have long ago learned that the officer who has given an order goes out and sees for himself whether it is has been carried out. ... Not that he distrusts the subordinate; he has learned from experience to distrust communications".
Peter Drucker in "The Effective Executive", p. 141
"One of the most obvious facts of social and political life is the longevity of the temporary. British licensing hours for taverns, for instance, French rent controls, or Washington "temporary" government buildings, all three hastly developed in World War I to last "a few months of temporary emergency" are still with us fifty years later. The effective decision maker knows this. He too improvises, of course. But he asks himself ever time "If I had to live with this for a long time, would I be willing to?" And if the answer is no, he keeps on working to find a more general, a more conceptual, a more comprehensive solution, one which establishes the right principle."
Peter Drucker in "The Effective Executive", p. 129
People with Deliberative in combination with Intellection, Consistency, Futuristic and/or Strategic have a lot of talent to develop the strength of asking and answering this kind of question.
"One holds back - if only for a moment - if one finds oneself uneasy, perturbed, bothered without quite knowing why. ... Nine times out of ten, the uneasiness turns out to be over some silly detail. But the tenth time one suddenly realizes that one has overlooked the most important fact in the problem, has made an elementary blunder, or has misjudged altogether."
Peter Drucker in "The Effective Executive", p. 158
People with Deliberative can develop the strength of a sixth sense warning them of dangers. They may not yet be fully conciously aware of it, but in the deeper level of their conciousness, they have already connected the dots and spotted the "dark clouds on the horizon".
One word of caution to my Deliberative friends, especially those with the Deliberative+Includer "double-pack":
"Committees of twenty, deliberate plenty.
Committees of ten, act now and then.
But most jobs are done by committees of one"
Author unknown (he must have been someone... (sorry, Includers, let me start again:) she/he must have been someone with Activator or Command!)
But then again, committees may also be a very useful way for Deliberatives to "freeze" the Ideation tribe:
"A committee is what you refer a bill to when you hope it will get lost. "
Sen. Richard Neuberger
I bet this is no news for a veteran Deliberative!
A word of caution of Deliberative (and also Strategic) going too far (and robbing your sleep at night):
"It is fruitless and a waste of time to worry about what is acceptable and what one had better not say so as to evoke resistance. The things one worries about never happen. And objections and difficulties no one thought about suddenly turn out to be insurmountable obstacles."
Peter Drucker in "The Effective Executive", p. 136
A word of caution to people with strong but insufficiently developed Deliberative:
"Some of the smartest people that I've hired over the years - many of them from consulting - had real difficulty with edge, especially when they were put into operations. In every situation, they always saw too many options, which inhibited them from taking action. That indecisiveness kept their organizations in limbo. In the end, for several of them, that was a fatal flaw."
Jack Welch in "Winning", p. 86
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