I love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another breakdown, it energizes me. I enjoy the challenge of analyzing symptoms, identifying what is wrong, and finding the solution–practical, conceptual, or personal. I enjoy bringing things back to life–identify the undermining factor(s), eradicating them, and finding its true glory.

I am intrigued by unique qualities and impatient with generalizations or “types” because they obscure what is special and distinct. Instead, I focus on the differences–instinctively observing style, motivation, how people think, and how they build relationships. I am a keen observer of other people’s strengths, enabling me to draw out their best, meaning this theme also helps me build productive teams. While some  search around for the perfect team “structure” or “process,” I instinctively know that the secret to great  teams is casting by individual strengths so that everyone can do a lot of what they do well.  

The Belief theme can vary by person buy for many, including me, it causes me to be family-oriented, altruistic, spiritual, and to value responsibility and high ethics—both in myself and others. These core values give my life meaning and satisfaction; success is  more than money and prestige. They provide me with direction, guiding me through the temptations and  distractions of life toward a consistent set of priorities.

A conductor. When faced with a complex situation involving many factors, I enjoy managing all of the variables, aligning and realigning them until I am sure I have arranged them in the most productive configuration possible. From the mundane to the complex, I am always looking for the perfect configuration through effective flexibility;; at my best in dynamic situations, jumping into the confusion, devising new options, hunting for new paths of least resistance and figuring out new partnerships–because after all, there might always be a better way.

Ideas are a dry beginning. Events are static–I feel a need to bring them to life, to energize  them, to make them exciting and vivid. Taking the dry idea and enlivening it with images and examples and metaphors. People are bombarded by information, but very little of it survives. I want information—whether an idea, an event, a product’s features and benefits, a discovery, or a  lesson—to survive. Capturing attention and locking it in.