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A step on from 'Bolton & Bolton'?

Posted June 4th, 2009 by Oliver Vellacott
In Reference to:
Your Native Perspective: Understanding Meetings

Great video - appreciate so much the work that went into it - thank you!

It reminded me of the 4 quadrants in the popular management tool for understanding 'types' and how they interact with each other, "Bolton & Bolton". The B&B quadrants plot assertiveness vs responsiveness, to give 'amiables' (less assertive, more responsive), 'analyticals' (less assertive, less responsive), 'drivers' (more assertive, less responsive) and 'expressives' (more assertive, more responsive). This site describes it pretty well: http://www.cambridge-md.co.uk/html_pages/managingforsuccess.html#

Anyway........realising how popular the B&B model has become in management training/culture, I got to wondering how/whether it relates to the integral model. I reckon UL is what B&B calls 'expressives'; UR is what they call 'drivers'; LR what they call 'analytics'; and LL is 'amiables'. So 'more responsive' equates to 'interior'; 'less responsive' to 'exterior'; 'more assertive' to 'individual'; and 'less assertive' to 'collective'. Intuitively, it seems to make sense!

Why does this matter? Well, if Integral is about real integration then the more of 'previous history' that can be brought together and 'understood' within the integral model, the better. And hopefully the integral model with its wealth of wider/higher perspective can much more widely inform than the somewhat two-dimensional model of Bolton & Bolton. It matters because it's a stepping stone for the business community from something they are already comfortable/familiar with (B&B) into the integral world...

...it 'transcends and includes'  :)

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I am amused!

Posted June 4th, 2009 by Brendan LaChance

You are right Oliver, that webiste does sound a lot like the native perspectives Integral Coaching is using...if they would just switch their lower right and upper left in their diagram, I might have thought they had generated their model using the quadrant model!! 

Thanks for the link, I agree that a bridge could easily be built here...