Life Style Inventory
Life Style Inventory
Amanda Blumenberg ablumenb@gmail.com MGMT-591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Prof. Romuald Stone
3/5/2015
Personal Thinking Style
While participating in the LSI survey, I found that my primary personal thinking styles are conventional and oppositional, ranking a 94% in both. According to the LSI scale, conventional measures our tendency to act in a conforming way. Oppositional measures our tendency to use the defensive and aggressive strategy of disagreeing with others, and to seek attention by being critical and cynical. My backup thinking styles are power and affiliative, ranking a 93% in both. According to LSI scale, power measures our tendency to associate our self-worth with the degree to which we can control and dominate others. Affiliative measures our degree of commitment to forming and sustaining satisfying relationships.
Primary Thinking Style
Determining your personal thinking style can be a bit challenging because it is such raw material. However, I can agree that I do carry some characteristics of being conventional and oppositional. In my personal life, sad to admit, I can come off as being negative in different situations. I can recall one particular situation that actually bothers me still today. A friend of mine called me to tell me she was giving a speech at a high school graduation and she was so happy to be able to give back to the community we grew up in. I particularly remember replying with “the kids will not listen to you, they can’t be helped”. She immediately got upset with me because she didn’t understand why I would have such a negative response to something so positive. I didn’t want it to come off as being jealous of her opportunity but I tend to say what’s on my mind before thinking about how I would make someone else feel. Considering I still hold that conventional characteristic, I felt the need to explain myself because I did respect how she felt about me hurting
Amanda Blumenberg ablumenb@gmail.com MGMT-591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Prof. Romuald Stone
3/5/2015
Personal Thinking Style
While participating in the LSI survey, I found that my primary personal thinking styles are conventional and oppositional, ranking a 94% in both. According to the LSI scale, conventional measures our tendency to act in a conforming way. Oppositional measures our tendency to use the defensive and aggressive strategy of disagreeing with others, and to seek attention by being critical and cynical. My backup thinking styles are power and affiliative, ranking a 93% in both. According to LSI scale, power measures our tendency to associate our self-worth with the degree to which we can control and dominate others. Affiliative measures our degree of commitment to forming and sustaining satisfying relationships.
Primary Thinking Style
Determining your personal thinking style can be a bit challenging because it is such raw material. However, I can agree that I do carry some characteristics of being conventional and oppositional. In my personal life, sad to admit, I can come off as being negative in different situations. I can recall one particular situation that actually bothers me still today. A friend of mine called me to tell me she was giving a speech at a high school graduation and she was so happy to be able to give back to the community we grew up in. I particularly remember replying with “the kids will not listen to you, they can’t be helped”. She immediately got upset with me because she didn’t understand why I would have such a negative response to something so positive. I didn’t want it to come off as being jealous of her opportunity but I tend to say what’s on my mind before thinking about how I would make someone else feel. Considering I still hold that conventional characteristic, I felt the need to explain myself because I did respect how she felt about me hurting