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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (19111)	9/1/2010 10:17:39 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Very interesting post. However, I guess that few are in a thread like this in order to achieve consensus, because that would be unrealistic. With regard to experience and judgement, I totally disagree that you need to explain how you got there. You just need to provide enough evidence to convince. Usually, clever thoughts come from people who are specialists, and who would spend a huge amount of time explaining their reasoning to those who are not specialists in that area. I don't know how a doctor would get to the conclusion of prescribing a drug to me, I just want to get evidence that it makes sense for me to have that drug. Did the doctor use logic? No idea. Maybe he just has a hunch. He can argue a lot about the prescription, and I wouldn't have a clue whether he is right or not. As an MBTI/INTJ personality profile, nearly none of my conclusions are derived from logic, unlike those with ITP profiles. I always need to find an explanation afterwards, and if I had to explain it every time, my productivity would be severely impacted. For instance, my CEO connects a laptop to the projector and wants to demonstrate something to a customer. There is a huge noise from the loudspeakers and he cannot fix it. He asks me what to do. I have no idea what to say, but I went up and pulled out the power supply cable from his laptop, and the projector's speakers stop making noise. It's a clear example of intuitive thinking (hence, the IN-part of the profile), which produces the right result in no time, but where I could spend minutes thinking, how to explain to my CEO, why this worked. So, if you want to exploit the full potential of your employees, don't always ask for a explanation, that you can understand. If you get that every time, you are either employing somebody that aren't smart enough, your employees have too little breadth in their knowledge, or you are simply wasting time.