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These traits are all the same thing: Perceiving (from the Jungian personality types). It's pretty common, he/she's just an extreme case.

To manage it, force the opposite. If this person is micro-managed, he/she can be a star. I've seen it happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator




More likely, they'll snap and stab your micro-manager in the face.


Heh heh. A collaborator would be better. Someone that could be excited about the right things and maybe steer a little via encouragement and reason. A truly anal micro-manager will simply humiliate the INTP.

The creative urge is a force of nature. Discipline is not antithetical to it... but control is pushing it. "Management" is right out. ;)




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