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David Allen's Making It All Work book has a 2x2 that fits TFAs scenario.

Captain and Commander - appropriate control and perspective, seen as that flow state in FFA chart

Micromanager - has too much control, not enough perspective, work gets out of control because it's being squeezed too hard

Crazymaker - has not enough control, but has lots of perspective. Work doesn't happen because new ideas pop up like fungus covering everything and nobody can iterate on anything because of all the context shifting.

Victim - not enough control or perspective, just responds to crises. Sounds like TFA version of the disengaged manager to me.

The thing is that the control and perspective axes change on the subject matter, so a person can be a Victim in one space and a crazy maker in another and a captain and commander in a third, at least at this point in time.




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