Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Tomorrow being the start of the fictional posts part of the Doctrine week.* It would seem incumbent on us to tie together the loose ends in the previous posts (Monday, Tuesday).

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that it is the character/nature of the individual’s relationship with reality (personal and common) that is one’s ‘personality type’. And, of course, the primary motivation for discovering and labelling types is to allow a deeper understanding. And claiming insight into whatever it is one is desginating as a type to the extent that the future behavior, development and actions are knowable by the one with the author... manufacturer.

In any event, the three predominant worldviews:

• clarks (the Outsider) “Labels?!! Then we’ll know about the person ahead of time and can safely approach the safe ones??! Where do we send our money!!!”
• scotts (the Predator) “Seriously? Love it! Like a ‘USDA Prime’ stamp or ‘Facsimile Only Not for Consumption’…walking Menus! Stamp ’em all and open the corral chute!! Dinner on the run, yum, yum.”
• rogers (the Herd Member) “Why how degrading. Labels and profiles. I thought you were more sophisticated and creative than that. No, what’s wrong with you? The P in Prime, that calls for a capital P. Really, is this anyway to run a personality system.”

So the workplace!

Short, sweet(ish) and useful (if you’ve kept up with your Reading):

Managers: rogers

Foremen/Supervisors: scotts

Laborers: clarks

How do you know this? Easy:

A rogerian manager will insist on having an office but will spend most of their time not it in. When a rogerian manager uses their office it is always with a degree of ceremony, i.e. the Closing of the Office Door. (With or without another person in the office. The rogerian manager will always make it obvious to the non-invited staff. This Is Special.)

A scottian foreman/woman? Who would’ve thought a person would chose to sit on your desk? Hey, when the scott wants to pay attention to you, everyone will notice. (Be grateful they only lean or sit on your work area, in nature, Marking Territory is not always so hygenic.)

The clark works alone, even (especially) as a team member. They, (the clarks), unfortunately, never quite understand the proper ratio between actual effort and being a part of the team. This is further exacerbated by their low threshold for boredom. Which leads to egregious misestimation of work completed and work remaining. They (the clarks) are always surprised when called on the carpet to explain their deficiencies.

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* lol, we know, right?