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The Strategist
Disciplined and reliable finishers, with a plan for the week and the will to run it.
- Trait
- Method: System
- Read as
- Industriousness or Orderliness
- Day job
- Operations lead, Program or project manager, Site, plant or logistics manager
- Nemesis
- The Maverick
- Allies
- Washington, Amundsen, Cook, Eisenhower
This is your archetype. Your answers are kept for ninety days.
TheStrategist
- Execution87
- Leadership62
- Teamwork50
- Adaptability14
- Negotiation50
- Vigilance60
Disciplined and reliable finishers, with a plan for the week and the will to run it.
Who is the Strategist?
The Strategist is dealt to a man whose method sits high against other men: whether you run a plan or run on the day.
George Washington held an army together for eight winters, then handed the power back.
1732–1799You finish what you start. Your week is planned before it begins, and the program you commit to is the program you complete. Most men restart in January. You never stopped.
What you bring, and what it costs.
Powers
- Follow-throughYou finish what you start. That is rarer than it sounds, and it is the one habit that decides whether anything works for you at all.
- Results you can compareYou run a program the same way for its full length, so afterwards you can tell whether it did anything.
- A week that runs itselfYour training, your work and your sleep are on a schedule, so none of them depends on how you feel on the day.
- TrustMen hand you the thing that has to get done, because it gets done.
Weaknesses
- Running a dead programThe plan says twelve weeks, so you do twelve, including the last four after it was clear the program was not working.
- The system over the manYou can hold to a schedule past the point where the schedule is the problem.
- No off switchRest is a line in the plan or it does not happen.
Five traits deal the archetype.
Scored against other men. Method is the one that deals this card.
Base traits
The archetype's shape. Yours replaces it after the twenty.
NerveNRV
SteadyAlert
37Neuroticism
How early a threat registers and how hard your mood is to hold.
EdgeEDG
BluntWarm
63Agreeableness
How much other people pull at you and how much you give way.
MethodMTD
ImprovSystem
90Conscientiousness
You run a system. The week is planned, the program gets finished, and afterwards you can tell whether it worked.
PresencePRS
Low-keyOutgoing
61Extraversion
How much you go toward people and take the room.
RangeRNG
PracticalIdeas
55Openness
How much you go toward ideas and the new thing.
Your ten traits
Where the Strategist wins at work.
Conscientiousness is the one trait that predicts performance in every job family the research has measured. It sits with leadership and with job satisfaction.
The papers: Personnel Psychology, 1991J Appl Psychol, 2002, PubMed 12184579J Appl Psychol, 2002, PubMed 12090610
Roles
- Operations leadThe plan is the product, and you run plans.
- Program or project managerTwelve weeks, on schedule, with the record to prove it.
- Site, plant or logistics managerA thousand moving parts and one week that holds.
- Finance and controlsRules, deadlines and a number that has to reconcile.
- Pilot, engineer, surgeonThe checklist professions, where the procedure is the skill.
- Military and emergency planningThe plan before the day, and the drill until it runs.
Skills
- Planning and follow-through
- Running a schedule other men keep
- Measuring whether a thing worked
- Finishing under a deadline
Your allies.
Held an army together for eight winters, then handed the power back.
Planned the South Pole down to the last dog, got there first, and got everyone home.
Three voyages on a schedule, the charts exact, and not one man lost to scurvy on the second.
Ran the largest plan in history, the landings of June 1944, and it landed.
Your nemesis: the Maverick.
TheStrategist
- Execution87
- Leadership62
- Teamwork50
- Adaptability14
- Negotiation50
- Vigilance60
Disciplined and reliable finishers, with a plan for the week and the will to run it.
VS
TheMaverick
- Execution13
- Leadership38
- Teamwork50
- Adaptability86
- Negotiation50
- Vigilance40
Unscheduled starters, who begin today and keep only what earns its place.
You run the plan and he runs the day. He has a week of results before your schedule is written, and you have a year of them after his interest ran out. He knows things your program will never teach you.
Know all ten.
The card reads five traits from twenty questions. Understand Yourself asks one hundred, scores all ten traits against other men, and confirms or corrects the card. It comes with New Heroes.
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Twenty items from a public-domain instrument, scored against 892 men. The card says something about you. It does not say what to take.