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FIFTEEN LENSES · LE MUSÉE

Process / Result
One axis. Two ways of seeing.

Faced with the same event, people do not always notice the same information, place judgment in the same way, or move forward in the same order. A Trait is a lens for observing that difference without ranking it.

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What becomes visible through this lens?

The two poles do not describe good and bad personalities or higher and lower ability. They describe different perspectives that may come naturally. Seeing both sides expands the choices available for dialogue and collaboration.

ProcessResult
VIEWPOINT · 01

Process

Process types move through things sequentially and in stages, immersing themselves deeply in whatever is under way.
Key Characteristics
• Moves through things sequentially and in stages
• Once committed, finds it hard to stop midway
• Easily becomes immersed in a process, entering the situation itself
• A single-tasker who concentrates on one thing at a time
• Tends to read books and information in order from the beginning

Speech Tendencies and Vocabulary
• Prefers words like “flow,” “process,” “step by step,” “in progress”
• Says things like “I’m still in the middle of it,” “once I stop I can’t get back in”

Behavioral Tendencies
• Values the coherence of what is under way more than completion
• Struggles to resume work that was interrupted
• The type who “can’t stop” once a game or a task has begun
VIEWPOINT · 02

Result

Result types take a bird’s-eye view oriented toward outcomes and goals, with clear beginnings and endings.
Key Characteristics
• Views things from above, oriented toward results and goals
• Conscious of the boundaries between beginning and end
• Does not immerse deeply in the process; handles several things in parallel
• Tends to skim or read for key points
• A top-down type: grasps the whole first, then moves to details

Speech Tendencies and Vocabulary
• Frequent words: “result,” “goal,” “beginning and end,” “milestone,” “outlook”
• Reactions like “so what does it come to?” “is that the end of it?”

Behavioral Tendencies
• What matters is where things arrive, more than how they proceed
• Feels strong discomfort and irritation with work whose end is not in sight
• A multitasker who manages several tasks in parallel