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Patterning strategies: Patterning the resolutique

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(table) See separate commentary. For a different approach (with table) see Typology of 12 complementary strategies essential to sustainable development ; also Chinese strategems; confidence ploys ; strategic dilemmas

Figure 1.
 

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

(being)  
 

+ Existing  

appearing  
emerging  
presenting  

Valuing/Qualifying  

raising standards  
controlling quality  
designing  

Evolving  

developing  
maturing  
unfolding  

Self-appreciating  

(Pride)  

Showing humility

-- disappearing  
dying  
eliminating
reducing standards  
allowing poor quality  
producing defective...
degrading  
regressing  
deteriorating
Sufficiency   

(accumulating)

+ Quantifying  

creating surplus  
overproducing  
exceeding  

Distributing  

flooding  
transporting  
carrying  

Exposing  

overexposing  
publicizing  
making available  

Coveting  

(Greed)  

Showing mercy

-- lacking  
wanting  
needing  
withholding
maldistributing  
concentrating  
imbalancing  
monopolizing
abstaining  
underexposing 
Dynamics   

(motivating)

+  Activating  

hastening  
speeding  
expediting   

Changing  

proliferating  
propagating  

Transforming  

accelerating  
overturning  
revolting 

Desiring inordinately  

(Lust)  

Being chaste  

Being continent

-- deactivating  
paralysing  
retarding  
slowing
decelerating  
rigidifying
Representation 

(assessing)

+ Encompassing  

complexifying  
comprehending  
diversifying  

Verifying  

reporting  
confirming  
recounting  

Certifying  

clarifying  
validating  
authenticating  

Envying  

Loving God,  

neighbour or enemy

-- trivializing  
oversimplifying  
reducing variety
covering-up / obscuring  
suppressing information  
biasing  
hyping up  
misleading
questioning  
confusing  
doubting  
taking on trust  
believing 
Organization   

(governing)

+ Structuring  

organizing  
formalizing  
integrating  
coordinating  
arranging   

Regulating  

restricting  
constraining  
controlling  
normalizing  
homogenizing  
disciplining  

Phasing  

harmonizing  
"routinizing"  
ritualizing  
regularizing  
programming  

Acting insatiably  

(Gluttony)  

Abstaining  

Tempering

--
fragmenting  
disintegrating  
deconstructing  
deregulating  
freeing / liberating  
"heterogenizing"  
deprogramming  
depatterning  
randomizing
Action   

(reacting)

+ Orienting  

indoctrinating  
converting  
propagandizing  
conditioning  

Utilizing  

using efficiently  
using ethically  
husbanding  
tending  

Acting appropriately  

preparing  
acting sensitively  
proactively  
ethically etc  

Resenting  

(Anger)  

Awaiting

-- discriminating  
denying rights  
disparaging  
demeaning  
deprecating
abusing  
manipulating  
squandering  
neglecting  
evading rules
acting inappropriately  
unsustainably  
inequitably  
etc
Consequence   

(of not acting)

+ Exposing to environment  

risking  
being a victim  
being vulnerable  
being destroyed by  

Impacting environment  
  
endangering  
violating  
harassing  
disrupting  
Learning  
  
remembering  
building confidence  
appreciating  
intuiting  
gaining insight  

Stagnating  

(Sloth)  

Fortifying

-- unstimulating  
unchallenging  
being perverted by  
being corrupted by  
depending
corrupting  
destroying  
perverting  
polluting
forgetting  
unlearning  
losing integrity/will  
self-depreciating  
losing self-esteem

From Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential