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Do you consider yourself more an Integrator or a Segmentor? [6 vote(s)]

Integrator
16.7%
Segmentor
83.3%
rayb


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http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1690

This is an interesting article about the trendy "Top Employer" of the nation, rated by Forbes... Google. I think it's interesting because I've worked for a startup for a while that had this attitude, and is starting to transition back to a more traditional company, because unless you're making HUGE amounts of money and can work with miniscule, highly qualified staff, you just can't afford it...

Still I find it interesting... When you work at your job, are you more Integrator or Segmentor?

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salesortonscom


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I'm a segmentator which may seem odd since we have a farm and family business. One thing nice about this industry is that it still is pretty much a day time business and mostly monday through friday except during harvest season. I feel blessed in that regard. Those perks they offer google employees sound great but I would rather spend more time with my family, eating food made by my wife, and more time doing non work things. The trade off to me isn't worth it. If I was single, it might be a different story but who cares about those perks if you have a wife and kids?

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I'm a little of both and a lot of neither.

I've worked with and for people who are one or the other. And depending on what a leader's priorities are, it can move the micro-corporate culture for everyone under and around them one way or the other...

yeah... leave it to the Wharton School to come up with this and say that other companies may get left behind if they don't follow suit. The problem is, that other companies may "mimic" it to give it lip service, but it doesn't change the corporate culture and underlying treatment of people like interchangeable parts... resources instead of people.

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rayb


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Haha. I remember working for a big company in which they gave lipservice to the idea that employees weren't just resources but they were people.

Those were the daze...

--Ray

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Oh, Ray, your just not a team player, that's yer problem!

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rayb


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My greatest strength is being a team player... I'll let anyone walk all over me. :)

--Ray

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That's not the team ray, that's what the team equipment manager does. Sorry to have to break the bad news to you.

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is this one of those sports analogies that I never seem to get?

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Segmenter. True-blue dyed-in-the-wool.  On the commute to work, I get myself focused and stay engaged all day.  On commute home, I decompress and get work totally out of my mind by the time I walk through the door.  I feel I give my best when I'm at work, and despise any work activities that cut into family time.

I have my family, a few close friends, and church.  I see no need to maintain anything beyond a professional relationship with cow-orkers.  I don't think I'd like to be friends with any of them anyway.

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I'm an Integrator.

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Aren't you a stay at home mom, Euphrasie? Forgive me if I'm wrong.
It just seems when you're a stay at home mom, it would be really hard to separate your home life from your work.

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Euphrasie


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Yup. Heh.

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Remember, there's no Ray in Team!

Euphie, I thought you were an Integer, not Integrator... or is that a subset of the latter?

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I Integrate my Integers, of course.

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With the exception of my role as the tooth fairy at home....

SEGMENTOR!!!!

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