Re: how do ya figure this?

Posted by matt on November 04, 2000 at 12:51:16:

In Reply to: Re: how do ya figure this? posted by Elizabeth on November 04, 2000 at 06:36:20:

This book where you found this... what is the writer's objective?

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He is illustrating that things are not always a compromise – you can have win-win solutions. He has a similar diagram with lose-lose, win-lose, lose-win, win-win. Or: low/low=anarchy, low/high=radical, high/low=conservative, high/high=mature ---where the y-axis is concern for change and the x-axis is concern for stability.

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Woods and trees... good illustration... but here I think what it really illustrated is the way a person reasons. A problem formulator starts with the
woods to understand the trees. (Taking something big and breaking it down)

A problem solver starts with trees to understand the woods. (Taking the parts and adding them up to equal a whole.)

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Ya, I like this thought. Except, I am not sure that the problem solver is ever concerned about understanding the woods. Instead, he/she is interested in getting to the end result or location. Perhaps he can get to where he wants to go but if you gave him a map he could not pick out where he acutely is. Perhaps a problem formulator is required to define where he should go next. But then again, perhaps I am talking a lot of rubbish.

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