Characterized by precision, reliability, efficiency, methodicalness, prudence, discipline, conformity.

Concerned with resolving problems rather than finding them.

Seeks solutions to problems in tried and understood ways.

Reduces problems by improvement and greater efficiency, with maximum of continuity and stability

Seen as sound, conforming, safe, and dependable.

Liable to make goals of means.

Seems imperious to boredom. Seems able to maintain high accuracy in long spells of detailed work.

Is an authority within given structure.

Challenges rules rarely; cautiously, when assured of strong support.

Tends to high self-doubt. Reacts to criticism by closer outward conformity. Vulnerable to social pressure and authority; compliant.

Is essential to the functioning of the institution all the time, but occasionally needs to be “dug out” of his systems.

When collaborating with innovators: supplies stability, order and continuity to the partnership.

Sensitive to people, maintains group cohesion and cooperation.

Seen as undisciplined, thinking tangentially, approaching tasks from unsuspected angles.

Could be said to discover problems and discover avenues of solution.

Queries problems’ concomitant assumptions; manipulates problems.

Is catalyst to settled groups, irreverent of their consensual views; seen as abrasive, creating dissonance?

Seen as unsound, impractical; often shocks his opposite.

In pursuit of goals treats accepted means with little regard.

Capable of detailed routine (system maintenance) work for only short bursts. Quick to delegate routine tasks.

Tends to take control in unstructured situations.

Often challenges rules, has little respect for past custom.

Appears to have low self-doubt when generating ideas, not needing consensus to maintain certitude in face of opposition.

In the institution is ideal in unscheduled crises, or better still to help to avoid them, if he can be controlled.

When collaborating with adaptors: supplies the task orientations, the break with the past and accepted theory.

Insensitive to people, often threatens group cohesion and cooperation.