Handle Exposure: G3

Exposure via Contests

It is in your interest to have a visible presence in society. The challenge is how that presence can best serve those interests. It is usually wise to keep your head down and only speak up when it is necessary to rise to the occasion.

Only narcissists and extreme extroverts want to be in the centre of attention all the time. Despite the gratification they may experience, this is not in their own best interests as they become hostages to fortune.

The qualifier for public contests, related to cause-centredness, is proposed as passionate. That means that you are proceeding with an intense belief in the genuine importance of your actions. When you allow exposure, you know that you are forwarding your own interests and you want to be taken seriously by others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 5 Triadic Groups

G3¹: Bid for Remunerative Contracts

Function: To ensure longer term financial security.

The obvious example here is an application for a job.

To bid (or apply or tender) effectively, you must expect to be in competition for the finances in offer (CL1). So you must passionately promote your expertise (CL3), and use your strengths resolutely (CL2) to maximize your likelihood of being selected.

Exposure: This is not just limited to whomever is inviting the bid , because there will be reviewers and others engaged in assessing and progressing the application. Also, over time, there will be numerous bids, always widening the range of viewers. Here, you are primarily exposing your financial expectations (g1) and your expertise (g3). Your available strengths (g2) are less visible.

G3²: Fight for Your Group

Function: To gain supporters for your values and goals.

When your outfit or project is under stress or threat, you need to passionately represent your group (CL4). To fight effectively, you must use your strengths (CL2)—but so will others i.e. it is competitive. You must be resolute in promoting your expertise (CL3).

Exposure: This activity will reveal your involvement in the group (g3), which might otherwise not be known; and fights always reveal the extent and limit of your strengths (g1): be they financial, social, intellectual or technical. Promotion of expertise (g2) seems less significant in this context.

G3³: Cement a Working Relationship

Function: To sustain transactions via personalization.

A working relation depends on your provision of expertise (CL3) and it will only be cemented if it is competitive. Subject to that, being passionate in developing a trusting relationship (CL3) is the enabling feature. At all times you need to represent your group resolutely (CL2) or there is no point.

Exposure: The level of expertise (g1) that you can contribute will be exposed, as will your willingness and capability to engage with wishes and needs, and to trust and be trusted (g3). Group representation (g2) is known in any case.

G3⁴: Defend Your Strategy

Function: To produce the best result for your group.

When it comes to the direction your group should be taking, you will find disagreements among members. Each protagonist claims to represent the best interests of the group (CL4), which means you are competing with them for influence. To do so, you must be passionate about the analyses you have performed (CL6). Meanwhile the group must remain unified and that means being resolute in maintaining and developing relationships (CL2).

Exposure: Your analyses and intellectual approach (g3) will be subject to intense scrutiny, and so will way you represent your group (g1) and see its future. The relationships (g2) are not an issue here.

G3⁵: Argue a Preferred Reality

Function: To steer the thinking of significant others.

Each person adheres intensely to their view of reality, so only those with whom you have a strong relationship are likely to listen to your arguments. Even then you must be passionate about what is realistic (CL7). You will be in competition for those relationships (CL5) and your likely success will depend on your resolute performance of analyses (CL6).

Exposure: Your conceptions (g3) will be exposed, potentially revealing biases or views that are correct but socially unacceptable. Your relationships and their strength will also be exposed (g1). Revelation of your analyses (g2) is of less significance.

Transition

At this point, you are able to reduce your vulnerability by focusing on self-interest (G1), to establish a foothold by taking essential risks (G2), and preserving your place in society by handling exposure (G3).

This makes it possible to take the next step and become satisfied, even perhaps gratified. Doing so depends on systematic interactions with others in order to make exchanges.

This is made possible by adding one adjacent level to form tetrads.

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• Continue with exchanges-G4 Tetrads.
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Originally posted: 30-Jun-2025