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Mapping Our Insights
Patterns in the Sand
IN DECIDING whether to take the leadership role in her university department, Samantha McPherson considered what she knew about herself. She knew that her most important life interests are Influence through Language and Ideas, Counseling and Mentoring, and Enterprise Control. She also has significant interests associated with Creative Production. Affiliation is her highest social motivator, followed by power; her pure achievement needs are significantly weaker. This pattern suggests that Sam had done well to seek out work in an organization that had a strong social mission (allowing her to realize her Counseling and Mentoring interests) and to immerse herself amid a busy, service-oriented staff ...
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