Richard Lewis developed a theory that humans can be divided into 3 clear categories based on
behaviour. He named these categories linear-active, multi-active and reactive.
The Lewis Model is based on data drawn
from 50,000 executives taking residential courses and more than 150,000 online
questionnaires to 68 different nationalities and has produced the following
tripartite comparison according to country.
As you can see from the illustrations, Finland is situated between 'linear-active' and 'reactive'. These traits are clearly visible in their everyday life. On the chart above you can see that the U.K and Finland are both going towards linear-active, an attribute that you can clearly see the difference with while in Finland is that people are more patient to hear others view and would never interrupt, whereas English people are talking half the time and will sometime interrupt if they believe their point is valid. I have also never seen a Finn become emotional over a topic, in England it's common for people to get angry quite easily and they will not hide this. Although these are some of the differences, we also have many similarities such as being job oriented, limited use of body language, polite and direct.
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