Quote Originally Posted by soundofconfusion View Post
business relationships (EIE/LIE) are often a lot of talk without ever gaining much from the other person, because your role function is pretty much turned off in favor of your base. you basically say something, but the other person doesn't really aknowledge it and develops his own point of view based on his own thoughts
I see what you're saying, but what I was getting at was slightly different than that. In a word, I didn't see them significantly reformatting what the other was saying in the sense you're implying—the ways they thought, in terms of how they articulated themselves, actually didn't seem that divergent; if anything the main difference was more motivation/culture-based. To me it more or less just seemed like they covered more ground than I would expect an LIE and EIE to.