Boris, I started my career working with engineers, but moved away from it. I always connected best with quantitative, analytical people. Achievement people can get satisfaction from the team accomplishing the goal. Power people can be sneaky, conniving bastards trying to manipulate the team toward goals. (No prejudice here...) Affiliation folks are touchy/feely and on coffee break. (No prejudice again...) Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmmm, I wasn't taught. I was taught about algorithm complexity and direct > acyclic graphs, but not "need for affiliation"... Sorry. We may have to work > out the common platform... err... language first. > > On 11/9/2010 5:16 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> The way I was taught about the 'Need for Affiliation' it was a social >> thing. >> It is most important for these people to have friends and fit-in at work. >> To have the rest of your co-workers give you affirmation. > > As long as it does not becomes ugly when these people come to work only to > socialize or affiliate with their peers doing effectively nothing. > >> Those driven by a 'Need for Achievement' want to get things done. >> They are fulfilled by accomplishments in a work environment. > > As long as it does not goes all the way to the extreme whereas you ask a > fellow programmer to help you and they say that they cannot waste their > precious times on you. I underline here the wording. > >> Those driven by a 'Need for Power' are your politicians and clergy. >> Their greatest satisfaction comes from influencing and leading people >> to do things the way they see them. > > As long as it does not goes all the way to the extreme whereas these people > do not listen to anyone else thinking that given their power they are all > knowledgeable and omnipotent. > >> Achievement and Power people are my favorites at work, while >> I don't know what to do with the Affiliation folks. > > I think that many Dilberts out there are affiliation people. I gather you > did not work too much with engineers in your career... > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
