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Robert Blake: People
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For forty years, Robert Blake has been trying to capture human interactions in numbers and graphs - a quixotic attempt, it would seem, a try at writing on clouds. Yet his Grid system - developed with his sidekick Jane Mouton, and marketed through their company Scientific Methods since 1961 - actually does help people who are not steeped in psychology to see themselves and those they work with more clearly, to understand their interactions, and identify the sources of disruptions, delays, resistance, and conflicts.
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"From day one, the defense has been trying to show that lots of people, not just Robert Blake, had a motive to kill Bonnie. This tape, the release of it, is another attempt to show other people with possible motives," Toobin said.
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Over the years, Blake and Mouton identified two additional styles, both rather common, that seem to combine various Grid positions. The "paternalist" style combines the whip-cracking 1,9 and the people-pleasing 9,1, depending the response of the subordinate. A subordinate that cooperates is rewarded with a "people-pleasing" relationship; one that doesn't is subjected to the whip. The "opportunist," on the other hand, is a chameleon, taking on whatever Grid style seems appropriate for the interaction of the moment, never revealing his or her own true feelings.
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Curiously, Blake had admitted in past interviews to almost killing two people, the father of a girl he dated and a therapist. "I felt like a killer and I liked it. It was an exciting feeling..." he stated in a frank 1976 interview.
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