In last week’s article, I talked about how a person’s BaZi (Four Pillars of Destiny) can be used to categorize them into one of the five basic types of BaZi Profile: Wealth, Influence, Exit, Resources, and Companion.
These profiles are derived using a BaZi technique called Structures. I also shared with you the various characteristics, traits and types of each profile and I hope you have managed to test my BaZi Profiler on my website.
This week, I want to share with you some ideas on how to handle each of these five types of profiles, but within the context of the extreme versions of each type.
When a person manifests an extreme version of their BaZi profile type (an occurrence caused by an imbalance in the elements in the BaZi table), it becomes very difficult to handle.
They become those difficult customers or clients, staff, bosses and shareholders: “the Difficult”. Difficult people are an inevitability in the business world. Therefore, it is important to find out how to manage these people effectively.
This is where BaZi Profiling comes in handy. By determining what kind of extreme profile a difficult person possesses, you can not only determine which individuals are likely to be difficult people, but you can also determine HOW that difficult person’s “difficulty” will manifest.
Elementary Extremists
From last week’s article, we know that there are five basic profiles of BaZi: wealth, influence, production, resources, and partner. In certain cases, a basic BaZi profile becomes an “extreme” variant.
Here, the negative characteristics of each type of profile will manifest themselves more strongly than the positive characteristics. For example, we know that people with a wealth profile are responsible, organized and diligent workers.
A person with the profile of Extreme Wealth becomes a control freak, is unable or refuses to delegate and has a hard time letting go. An employee with an extreme wealth profile causes friction in the organization by overworking and thereby putting pressure on staff or co-workers to match their level of productivity.
Let’s see how the “extreme” variants of each of these profile types would manifest themselves and what is the best way to deal with these people.
For the sake of simplicity, I will refer to the extreme manifestations of each of these five basic profile types as Extreme Wealth, Extreme Influence, Extreme Exit, Extreme Resource, and finally Extreme Companion.
Extreme wealth profile: control freaks, poor delegation ability, overly responsible, unable to be a team player. Use bullying, power play, and intimidation tactics to get your way. Very critical and often demanding of others according to their own standards, which are often absurdly high. Extreme perfectionists.
Extreme exit profile: Know-it-all, very critical, little receptivity to suggestions, big picture types, blunt and forceful, selfish, superiority / God complex. Show a strong preference for the new and the untested, willing to try unconventional approaches or tactics. Extremely contrary approach. Lone Rangers.
Extreme Resource Profile: Procrastinators, overthinkers, pedantic, devious thoughts or approaches, unable to commit or make a “big decision”, complainers, people who reject responsibility, do not take the initiative, and seek to hide their mistakes. Poor focus, fuzzy thinking, and a lack of guts. Forgetful, prone to losing important documents and overlooking details.
Extreme Buddy Profile – Too nice so they don’t do anything because they can’t get anyone to do anything. Little tolerance for conflict. Bland and devoid of opinion or thought. Yes, men, even when they cannot give birth. Never lead, prefer to follow. Sneaky, as they tend to complain behind your back. Poor decision-making skills. Lacking in guts and afraid to offend people.
What I have described above are the general strokes of each Extreme variant of the five basic profiles. The power dynamics of your relationship with this Difficult Person will typically give a more accurate idea of how your “difficulty” will manifest.
For example, an extremely wealthy superior will find it difficult to delegate and may micromanage to an excessive level. An Extreme Wealth client would be extremely focused on getting as many benefits as possible for the lowest cost (an extreme manifestation of responsible financial attitudes) while demanding daily up-to-date reports on what is happening with their project or job.
Next time: how to deal with each type of extreme profile “difficulty”.