Corporate Talent Detection and Development

14 Extra-personal MO.O.N.: Multiple-tenticular

14.1. Rehabilitating the metis: a natural operating mode

“The victory over an undulating reality, which its continuous metamorphoses make almost elusive, can only be obtained through increased mobility, an even greater power of transformation” [DÉT 74, p. 28].

“Your competitors have faster horses, but they don’t know how to use more skill than you do. Courage then, friend; remember in your soul all the means of skill, so that the price may not escape you” [HOM 13, xxiii, p. 508].

“The general must be sure that he can dominate the situation to his advantage, as circumstances require. He is not bound by fixed procedures” (Sun Tzu, VIII, 9).

“Jobs is a complex person; his manipulative side is the hidden side of everything that makes him successful” – Stephen Wozniack¹.

Over the past 3 years, 900 managers or top managers have assessed their performance skills. By performance, we mean the sum of the skills-abilities, which, in the light of an expected result, follows the course of things (the trend), fecundates potential (che) and deploys weaves as much as the resource of said skills-abilities according to the utility required by the situation. Let us recall that performance is thought in terms of consequence. The results show that certain skills inherent in the extra-personal MO.O.N., such as perceiving forces in action (tékmōr), being resourceful (panoûrgos), pretending (dòlos) and non-acting (wuwei, 無為; polutropos) are not operative ...