When it comes to group work, I would say that I am a combination of a diagnostician and an energizer, also an initiator/contributor. I pretty quick to gauge how everyone's opinion can connect together or not work together, after which I advise my own course of action, which is what the group agrees on a lot of the time. This is can be related to the character Michael Corleone from Mario Puzo's The Godfather saga. Originally, Michael is the child in the family who does not want to get involved in the family's mob business, but after a significant plot scene, he changes into the man who will eventually take his father's place as the Godfather of the Corleone empire. He expresses his opinions, indicates what the problems are, and solves them using his intelligence, which eventually leads his followers and clients into trusting his decisions. He isn't afraid to take risks, provided that the payoff will be high if they work out. I certainly am not as dignified, or as cool, as he is, and while I've never left a gun in order to take a cannoli, but when I offer up ideas in the group, I think it's safe to say I can make people an offer they can't refuse.
I would also say that I have a bit of the feeling expresser in me. This reminds me a lot of Hermione in Harry Potter, as she is always the first one to express her discomfort with the various shenanigans that Harry and Ron suggest that the three of them try. This can be seen in just about every novel in the series, with too many results to list. The most memorable for me is at the end of the last book where Ron and Hermione had a relationship that briefly ended for a few chapters after Ron's jealousy made things difficult. Anyway, I'd say this represents me because I am very good at reading people and understanding how they or their opinions relate to other's opinions in the group, which I can bring up and discuss with the group in order to make things run more smoothly.
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