Thinking style is not intellect, it is the way in which you useyour intellect. Everyone has their own distinctive, natural style of thinking, which defines how they apply their intellect to most situations. Some people deal first with the concepts, others look first for the strategies or alternatives available to them, and still others look first at the functions or operations. Bandwidth is the term they use to describe how much information a computer can efficiently process at one time. If the computer can do ten calculations at the same time, it has a greater bandwidth than the computer that does only three at once.
People have a bandwidth too.
Start noticing how much information someone can process efficiently at one time. Around 80 percent of the people you meet tend to think operationally, about 18 percent of the people tend to be strategic thinkers, and only about 2 percent will be conceptual thinkers. Operational thinkers prefer to deal with one thing at a time. They are most efficient when they can focus on each item separately. Strategic thinkers tend to select the situations they want out of the many alternatives they've identified.