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Five Thinking Styles

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than lookingJohann Wolfgang von

Goethe

You improve your communication with others when you can match their thinking style.

You can also avoid rubbing your boss the wrong way by paying close attention to how they approach the

tasks of the day.

InCoping with Difficult Bosses,Robert Bramson identifies five thinking styles to categorize our modes of

thinking and problem solving we use most frequently.

Key Take Aways

Here are my key take aways:

Seek first to understand, then to be understood . The more you understand somebody, the better

you can adapt your style. I think the five thinking styles are a helpful framework in addition tounderstanding somebodys learning style (auditory,visual,orkinesthtic), theirNLP meta-programs,

theirmotivation(towards pleasure or away from pain), theirvalues,their "rules", their extraversion and

introversion tendencies, their passive or aggressive tendencies, whether they are more "task-

centered" or "people-centered", their decision making style (consult-and-decide or build consensus),

and theirmanagement styles(Autocratic,Paternalistic,Democratic,andLaissez-faire.)

Establish rapport. I think the heart of identifying the five thinking-styles revolves around establishing

rapport. Rapport is the key to communication, influence, and trust.

Know the anti-patterns. Its probably more important to know how to avoid rubbing somebody the

wrong way, than getting the preferred or ideal communication style exactly right.

Wear different hats. I think you can use theSix-Thinking Hatsconcept to switch your hat based on

who you are working with. Each hat you put on or take off can represent a different thinking style.
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Five Thinking Styles

According to Bramson, the five thinking styles are:

Synthesists

Idealists

Pragmatist Thinkers Analyst Thinkers

Realist Thinkers

Synthesists

According to Bramson, "Synthesists are creative thinkers who perceive the world in terms of

opposites. When you say black, they think white, when you say long, they think short."

To connect with Synthesists, Bramson suggests "listen appreciatively to their speculation and dont

confuse their arguing nature with resistance."

Idealists

According to Bramson, "Idealists believe in lofty goals and standards."To connect with Idealists, Bramson suggests "associate what you want to do with these goals of quality,

service, and community good."

Pragmatic Thinkers

According to Bramson, "Pragmatic thinkers are flexible, resourceful folk who look for immediate payoff

rather than for a grand plan that will change the world."

To connect with Pragmatists, Bramson suggests "emphasize short-term objectives on which you can get

started with resources at hand."

Analyst Thinkers

According to Bramsom, "Analyst thinkers equate accuracy, thoroughness, and attention to detail withcompleteness. They are likely to gather data, measure it, categorize it, and rationally and methodically

calculate the right answer to any problem you come up with.

To connect to Analysts, Bramson suggests "provide a logical plan replete with back-up data and

specifications."

Realist Thinkers

According to Bramson, "Realist thinkers are fast moving doers who know that reality is what their senses

sight, sound, taste, smell, and touchtell them it is and not that dry stuff that one finds in accounting

ledgers, or the insipid pages of manual of operations."

To connect with Realists, Bramson suggests, "If you communicate with Realist bosses as if they were

Analysts, you will never get their attention. Rather than gobs of computer-printouts and other detailedinformation, Realists want a three-paragraph Executive Summary which tells briefly what is wrong and

how you propose to fix it. For rather complicated reasons, they will often take you at your word if they see

you as a qualified expert. You become an expert in their eyes when they know that youve assembled a

store of facts in which they are interested, and you have proposed a set of actions that they already

believe are the best things to do.


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How To Use the Five Thinking Styles

Take the time to place your boss or who you need to interact with into one or two of the five thinking-style

categories. Keep in mind that while one or two styles predominate for most people, about fifteen percent

use all five styles equally. Those who do are seldom difficult bosses. Once youve identified their

preferred categories, figure out how you can change your approach to better suit their style.

List of thought processesFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list ofthinking styles,methods of thinking (thinking skills), and types ofthought.See also theList of

thinking-related topic lists,theList of philosophiesand thePortal:Thinking.

Abductive reasoning

Abstract thinking

Adaptation

Adaptive reasoning

Analogy

Argument

Association of Ideas

Analysis

Assessment

Autistic thinking(seeGlossary of

psychiatry)

Backcasting

Belief

Brainstorming

Causality

Calculation

Casuistry

Categorization

Chunking (psychology)

Code

Cognition

Cognitive restructuring

Cognitive space

Cognitive style

Common sense

Expectation

Experimentation

Explanation

Extension (semantics)

Forward thinking

Fuzzy logic(fuzzy thinking)

Generalizing

Gestalt psychology

Heuristics in judgment and decision

making

Higher-order thinking

Historical thinking

Holism

Hypothesis

Idea

Inductive reasoning

Inference

Inquiry

Instinct

Intelligence

Intentionality

Interpretation

Integrative thinking

Introspection

Intuition

Personal experience

Persuasion

Philosophical analysis

Philosophical method

Planning

Po

Preconscious

Prediction

Premise

Problem finding

Problem shaping

Problem solving

Projecting

Proposition

Rationality

Reason

Reasoning

Recognition primed decision

Repair

Rethinking

Reversal

Self-reflection

Sapience

Semantic network

Semantics
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Communicating

Concept

Concept-formation

Concept map

Conceptual metaphor

Conceptual thinking

Concrete concepts

Conjecture

Constructive criticism

Conversation

Creative thought processes

Creativity

Creativity techniques

Critical thinking

Decision making

Decision-making processes

Deconstruction

Deductive reasoning

Definition

Dereistic thinking(seeGlossary

of psychiatry)

Design(and re-design)

Diagrammatic reasoning

Dialectic

Discovery

Distinction (philosophy)

Distributed cognition

Emotion

Entrained thinking

Emotionally-based thinking skills

Emotions

Estimation

Evaluation

Inventing

Judging

Kinesthetic learning

Language

Lateral thinking

Learning

Linguistics

Logic

Logical argument

Logical assertion

Meaning (linguistics)

Meaning (non-linguistic)

Meaning (semiotics)

Memorization

Mental calculation

Mental function

Meta-analytic thinking

Metacognition(thinking about

thinking)

Meta-ethical

Metaphor

Methodic doubt

Mind's eye

Mind map

Mindset

Mnemonics

Morphological analysis

Multiple intelligences

Multitasking

Natural language processing(NLP)

Nonduality

Object pairing

Organizational thought

Semiosis

Semiotics

Sensemaking

Situational awareness

Six Thinking Hats

Storytelling

Stream of consciousness

Subconscious

Suspicion (emotion)

Substitution (logic)

Syllogism

Synectics

Synthesis(synthetic)

Systems thinking

Theories

Thought

sonorization(seeGlossary of

psychiatry)

Thinking

Thinking processes

Thinking outside the box

Thought

Translation

Thought experiment

Thought disorder

Trial and error

TRIZ

Unconscious mind

Understanding

Vertical thinking

Visual thinking

VPEC-T

Working memory
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Methodic_doubthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%27s_eyehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%27s_eyehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_maphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_maphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindsethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindsethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_analysis_(problem-solving)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_analysis_(problem-solving)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitaskinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitaskinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_pairinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_pairinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizational_thought_processeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizational_thought_processeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiosishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiosishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semioticshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semioticshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemakinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemakinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_awarenesshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_awarenesshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hatshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hatshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytellinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytellinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness_(psychology)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness_(psychology)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subconscioushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subconscioushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(emotion)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(emotion)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_(logic)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_(logic)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecticshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecticshttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Synthesishttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Synthesishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_sonorizationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_sonorizationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_sonorizationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_sonorizationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_sonorizationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_psychiatryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_psychiatryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_psychiatryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_psychiatryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_processes_(theory_of_constraints)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_processes_(theory_of_constraints)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_outside_the_boxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_outside_the_boxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experimenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experimenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_disorderhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_disorderhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_errorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_errorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mindhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mindhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understandinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understandinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_thinkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_thinkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPEC-Thttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPEC-Thttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPEC-Thttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_thinkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understandinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mindhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_errorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_disorderhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experimenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_outside_the_boxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_processes_(theory_of_constraints)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_psychiatryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_psychiatryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_sonorizationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tho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Parallel thinking

Perceptive processes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_thinkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_thinkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_perception-related_topicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_perception-related_topicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_perception-related_topicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_thinking

different types of thinking

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