Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Synthesis-related jobs or roles

We've conceived of a variety of roles or jobs that Type N people could do, including:
  • Bridge - a Bridge is a person who works primarily within a specialty, but whose learning style or inclinations suit him or her to spend time where possible learning about what others are doing around them, making observations, connections, etc.
  • Synthesist - A Synthesist is a person who no longer has a material "home" specialty (or perhaps who never had one), and who spends all his or her time learning about what others are doing around them, making observations, connections, etc.
  • Gate-keeper - A Gate-keeper is a person who personally collects information about what others around them are doing, saying, learning, being expert at etc., and who provides that knowledge to others as needed.
  • Ordinologist - An Ordinologist is a person who spends his or her time collecting and organizing information and knowledge (including multidisciplinary connections) from other people, and saving that information and knowledge in a structured, retreivable form so that others can get at them. In other words, an Ordinologist is sort of a super-librarian of ideas.

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