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                seven: the visionary

Sevens want to keep all positive options open and active. Engaging, high-energy romancers, innovative and upbeat planners, Sevens are also the classic superficial Peter Pans who won't grow up. So wedded are they to the glorious possibilities of the vision they are spinning, they have a hard time perceiving the downside and so avoid closure, pain, conflict, ordinary commitments and routine work. Enthusiastic initiators of projects, they may fail to follow through. Others may experience them as narcissistic, quixotic and irresponsible. The best Sevens are gifted, perceptive and witty idealists, inspirational and charming amalgamators of ideas and enthusiastic networkers of people.

Worldview"The world is full of exciting ideas and possibilities to explore."
High SideInnovative, enthusiastic, big-picture planners
Low Sideintellectual dilletantes
Leadership StyleManagement by Walking Around, cheerleading for people and ideas
Appeal tofun, idealism, adventure
Don't Appeal toduty, norms
TalkBrainstorming, storytelling
VirtueSobriety, gravity
AlchemySublimatio: to infuse with spirit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from The 9 Ways of Working (c) Michael J. Goldberg, 1999. All rights reserved.