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Agree with every word, plus the bonus of everything I learned reading it.
To pick one idea out of a dozen:  yes the difference is going from bottom-up, or from top-down.  And ABSOLUTELY those of us who go top-down NEED the check-and-balance from those who go bottom-up.
If you were a manager running a $10M budget and overseeing 30 employees, and you were a synthesist, you would be crazy not to have analysts around you.  You would wind up ruining the organization, and your career.
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In which category do you see Zduriencik, Gordon?  Bill James?  Jeff Sullivan?  Geoff Baker?
Like maybe Zduriencik is 60% synthesist, 40% analyst ... wouldn't the Ackley, 2B decision be way synthesist? ... Baker seems about 80-90 synthesist.  James may be an almost perfect 50-50 blend, but his default mode seems to be the big picture -- despite his grim insistence on precision data.