PRINCIPAL THINKER

"Creating order out of chaos" is my way of describing my will. Determined, logical, critical, I love a challenge, especially one that will allow tangible improvement in productivity, efficiency or profitability. I am direct, finding the quickest, most direct path between what is and what should be, I see no shades of grey.

I excel at implementing ideas and am always on the lookout for good ideas worthy of my attention. I am quick to lead, organize, orchestrate, find resources, coordinate, and follow through to the end of a project. I love a problem, especially one that will make full use of my competencies, my logic and sense of order, justice and fair play.

I find competition to be stimulating and fun, but I’m a fierce competitor. "These are the rules of the game now let us play." Fairness is sharing and respecting the same set of rules, so may the best one win. And since I readily acknowledge that there will be a winner and a loser, I would simply much rather be the winner. So I’ll hone my strategies on the fine knife of experience, logic and determination and sharpen my skills to meet the next challenge head on with no fear.

I love having greater challenges bestowed upon me as a result of having successfully met the last, as this attests to my competence and skills. I sometimes appear dispassionate because of my impersonal and objective approach, but close observation will reveal deep passion and enthusiasm as well as sensitivity, for what I do, I take things very serious. I expect others to roll up my sleeves as I do and meet any task in spite of personal hardships or discomfort, I have come to realise everyone has demons, so you might as well just get stuck in and do your best.

I have little tolerance for personal whims that threaten the smooth running of an operation, I hate slackers and do-gooders and Hierarchy. I am direct and honest with most things that displease me and expect others to be the same, this can often cause problems with peers and work colleagues, so do have to sometimes hold my words. My humanity shows in my sense of fairness and justice and my willing to lend a hand.

The world is never as it is, but as it could be, I view it as if it were but an artists sketch begging for colour. I initiate change impatiently and I am often prone to trespassing a few unknown boundaries to take myself to where I have not been before.

When inspired, I am fearless and tireless. My energy will know no limits unless red tape or hierarchy takes over (this ones a big one). Routine drags me down and boredom scares me. My faith in possibilities and belief in the benefit of change often inspire others to follow yet can inspire other to dislike me. I am challenging, ingenious and innovative. I will give my best to what appears to be an impossible challenge, I would die for my cause.

I use metaphors, stories, images and analogies to make my point, but I’m not that interested in replaying precise facts as my memory for fine detail is not that good anyway. I love theories and often shape my own. I see patterns emerging. I’m a keen improviser, I am rarely caught off guard; there is always something up my sleeve as I look into the future.

Lastly, I am very loyal if treated fair. I will protect the one’s whom trust in me, but gaining my trust does not come easy, but this alone makes a friendship strong if the moral boundary has been past. If you do happen to pick a fight and draw first blood, be prepared to have a fight, "start with something petty and I'll make it more". I am happy to step back if wrong, but if cheated, you will not be forgotten. If I know I'm right I will battle to the end. I may appear to hold my tongue and come across shy, but in most cases I am a few steps ahead as I am in constant strategic mode.