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. Strategic thinkers are always looking at options and possibilities. They process several ideas at once and consider the relative value of each alternative. And the conceptuals see the whole thing in a much larger context and look to how they can shape the future.