KEIRSEY ANNUAL TEMPERAMENT AWARDS

Awarded to well know and best examples of the temperaments of the year.

2001

GUARDIAN OF THE YEAR

NEW YORK MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI (SUPERVISOR GUARDIAN)

Combative and festy, similar to Harry Truman's demeanor, Mayor Rudy Giuliani's stalwart reaction to New York's greatest tragedy made the editors of Time magazine give him Time's Man of the Year Award.  No nonsense, no excuses, Giuliani worked tiredlessly to handle the 9/11 crisis with hard work, decisiveness,  and cooperation with all his people.

ARTISAN OF THE YEAR

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH (PROMOTER ARTISAN)

After a barely winning a controversial election and a loss of the Republican Senate majority, President Bush has shown his metal in crisis of the 9/11 tragedy.  Leading his team to effective political coalition building and a textbook military execution of elimination of terrorism in Afghanistan, George Bush has become a popular President.

RATIONAL OF THE YEAR

  FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN ALLEN GREENSPAN (FIELD MARSHAL RATIONAL)

When explaining the complexities of the economy to Congress, in his normal shades of grey and subjunctive form, the public has a rare view of a Rational in words and action.  For fourteen years he has skillfully (most of the time) guided the US economy, and arguably is the most influential man in the world.  Cautious and reasoned, Greenspan recently has reduced interest rates dramatically to try to help the economy.

IDEALIST OF THE YEAR

DEE HOCK,  FOUNDER AND CEO EMERITUS OF VISA INTERNATIONAL

Not the fire-and-brimstone gospel preaching of a tent revivalist -- but preaching nonetheless. This is the workplace gospel of Dee Ward Hock, a 67-year-old retired banker with a powerful message of change, hope, and possibility, and the promise of a shining synthesis of chaos and order, a "chaordic organization.

Author of the Birth of the Chaordic Age