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4.4 Patterning the resolutique table

Figure 1. Tentative set of strategy "action qualifiers" organized in the light of strategy clusters (see also equivalent table for "problems")

Nature

(being)

  Existing Value/Qualifying Evolving
+

appearing
emerging
presenting

raising standards
controlling quality
designing

developing
maturing
unfolding


-

disappearing
dying
eliminating

reducing standards
allowing poor quality
producing defective...

degrading
regressing
deteriorating

Self-appreciating

(Pride)

Showing humility

Sufficiency

(accumulating)

  Quantifying Distributing Exposing
+

creating surplus
overproducing
exceeding

flooding
transporting
carrying

overexposing
publicizing
making available


-

lacking
wanting
needing
withholding

maldistributing
concentrating
imbalancing
monopolizing

abstaining
underexposing

Coveting

(Greed)

Showing mercy

Dynamics

(motivating)

  Activating Changing Transforming
+

hastening
speeding
expediting

proliferating
propagating

accelerating
overturning
revolting


-

deactivating
paralysing

retarding
slowing

decelerating
rigidifying

Desiring inordinately

(Lust)

Being chaste
Being continent

Representation

(assessing)

  Encompassing Verifying Certifying
+

complexifying
comprehending
diversifying

reporting
confirming
recounting

clarifying
validating
authenticating


-

trivializing
oversimplifying
reducing variety

covering-up / obscuring
suppressing information
biasing
hyping up
misleading

questioning
confusing
doubting
taking on trust
believing

Envying

Loving God,
neighbour or enemy

Organization

(governing)

  Structuring Regulating Phasing
+

organizing
formalizing
integrating
coordinating
arranging

restricting
constraining
controlling
normalizing
homogenizing
disciplining

harmonizing
"routinizing"
ritualizing
regularizing
programming


-

fragmenting
disintegrating
deconstructing

deregulating
freeing / liberating
"heterogenizing"

deprogramming
depatterning
randomizing

Acting insatiably

(Gluttony)

Abstaining

Tempering

Action

(reacting)

  Orienting Utilizing Acting appropriately
+

indoctrinating
converting
propagandizing
conditioning

using efficiently
using ethically
husbanding
tending

preparing
acting sensitively
proactively
ethically etc


-

discriminating
denying rights
disparaging
demeaning
deprecating

abusing
manipulating
squandering
neglecting
evading rules

acting inappropriately
unsustainably
inequitably
etc

Resenting

(Anger)

Awaiting

Consequence

(of not acting)

  Exposing to environment Impacting environment Learning
+

risking
being a victim
being vulnerable
being destroyed by

endangering
violating
harassing
disrupting

remembering
building confidence
appreciating
intuiting
gaining insight


-

unstimulating
unchallenging
being perverted by
being corrupted by
depending

corrupting
destroying
perverting
polluting

forgetting
unlearning
losing integrity/will
self-depreciating
losing self-esteem

Stagnating

(Sloth)

Fortifying