Are you a big or small picture person?

[The2ndWheel]

Poll question: Are you a big or small picture person?

More step back and look at the whole, or more focused and detail oriented?

With all the posts about globalization, immigration, gas prices, the fall of America beginning in 2000, Bush as a singular force, etc, just wondering.

Obviously some are a bit of both when concerning X or Y issue, but I just mean in general terms. Which I guess makes me more of a big picture guy, at least with this question, which I guess could mean I'm more detailed.

Uggg, just answer the damn question before I twist myself into knots :evilgrin:

[MadMaddie]

1. I am an IT Project Manager.....

My job requires me to look at the big picture.....and burrow down to some details....what will my successful project look like at the end....what mitigation paths do I need to implement if things go wrong...

I suppose that is why I am so angry at this administration....they take on projects like Iraq and Afghanastan and now possibly Iran and they never take into account what happens after the bombings....Medicare....how is really going to impact the elderly...No child left behind....how will the states manage this program....and the list goes on and on and on....

They are incompetent....and very dangerous....

[TahitiNut]

3. Systems Thinking is not this regime's strong suit.

... to say the very least. :eyes:

http://www.systems-thinking.org/systhink/systhink.htm
http://www.systemdynamics.org/
http://www.managementhelp.org/systems/systems.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking

"Nut" ... "Mad" ... I think I see a connection here. :dunce:

Jerry Weinberg RULEZ!!! :silly:
http://www.geraldmweinberg.com/Bookstuff/Each_Book/GST.html
THE BEST BOOK ON THINKING EVER WRITTEN!

[salvorhardin]

2. Neither

I'm an art critic.

[IChing]

4. Keep track of the pieces, pay attention to the details then you can

really see the big picture.

[SammyBlue]

5. I'm a small picture person

Without the small picture, you lose the big picture.

[longship]

6. Me, too. Reductionism is a very good way.

Unless one has a very clear picture of how the minute details assemble into the big picture one will never understand how and why things work, or don't work.

I agree with what others have written here. ChimpCo is strictly big picture, paying absolutely no attention to why and how, or to the "devil in the details". That's why they are totally incompetent in everything they do. Their whole strategy is to adopt an ideologically based position, act on it using some warped logical connection to reality, and then, when things inevitably fall apart, cover it up with a heavy layer of political slime.

Think about all the "big picture" idioms ChimpCo uses. This is an administration that is totally uninterested in details. That is precisely why they fail at virtually everything they do.

[rucky]

7. I am always at odds with detail oriented people.

we tend to drive each other crazy.

[Bellamia]

8. Big

Because if I wasn't, the little pieces would be just too devestating at times.