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Your Thinking Profile:The Four Preferences Reseach into human creativity shows four unique mental processes essential for breakthrough thinking. “FourSight: The Breakthrough Thinking Profile” is an assessment tool that measures your preferences for: Clarifier: Likes to spend time clarifying the issue before exploring answers. Moves forward cau- tiously. Likes to make sure the right problem is being addressed. Gathers information to better understand the crux of an issue. Believes you must not move forward too quickly to the solution. Enjoys the process of searching for data and information. Likes to look at the details. May suffer from “analysis paralysis.” Ideator: Likes to generate broad concepts and ideas. Tends to think in abstract and global ways. Is more comfortable understanding the big picture. Visionary. Enjoys stretching the imagina- tion. Constantly toying with ideas. Drawn to broad issues. Less concerned with the details. Able to generate many ideas. A flexible thinker. Sees many possible solutions. May leapfrog from one idea to the next, not following through on ideas. Developer: Likes to spend time analyzing potential solutions, breaking them apart and examining their strengths and weaknesses. Enjoys transforming a rough idea into a finely crafted solution. Likes to think in advance of the steps necessary to implement an idea. Likes to analyze and compare competing solutions. Enjoys aspects of the innovation process that require evaluation and decision making. May get stuck in developing the perfect solu- tion. Implementer: Strives constantly to take action on ideas. Derives the most energy when bringing ideas to fruition. Always moves towards the next tangible outcome. Gets things accomplished. Believes in learning by doing. Constantly concerned about getting the next idea to the implementation stage and sometimes feels frustrated because things move too slowly. May get impatient and leap to action too quickly. FourSight Group Profile: For a quick insight into the dynamics of a group, dis- cover the FourSight “Group Profile,” which reveals the peak and low preferences of the collective group. Those with no peak or low preferences appear as “Integrators” in the center grey line. www.foursightonline.com
