What draws them together
Why the one who looks ahead and the one who connects are drawn to each other
The Visionary knows they are sometimes lonely because people do not understand their vision well. So beside the Mediator, who gently connects people, people come to understand their plan.
The Mediator, in turn, knows that in keeping the peace, they lose sight of the larger direction. Meeting the Visionary, who looks far ahead, the Mediator gains a larger purpose to achieve by reconciling people.
What they are good at together
What is completed together
Their greatest strength is that vision and people connect without a break. When the Visionary plans the future to move toward, the Mediator gathers people's hearts toward that future. Planning alone stops at a lonely ideal and connecting alone stops at harmony without a goal, but together the two bring about change that people move toward together.
The two are especially good at reconciling people who have split apart. When the Visionary presents a larger goal that embraces everyone and the Mediator soothes people's feelings, even people who could hardly reconcile come to look toward the same goal.
The hidden paradox
The ideals and mildness that attracted them leave them out of step
A day comes when the Mediator, who fell for the distant future the Visionary pictures, wears out from the loneliness it brings, and the Visionary, who relied on the Mediator's gentle way of creating harmony, grows frustrated with its indecisiveness. The two later grow awkward with each other because of the very point they first respected.
The Visionary easily drifts away from people, and the Mediator hesitates when they need to go in an uncomfortable direction. If the two cannot use the Visionary's ideals and the Mediator's warmth together, the Visionary becomes isolated and the Mediator becomes indecisive.
Where they disagree
Does the vision come first, or the relationships
Their most frequent conflict comes from what to put first. The Visionary says to accept the present discord for a larger purpose, and the Mediator says to protect people's harmony first. Someone who puts ideals first and someone who puts relationships first often argue.
The deeper risk is that no one is left to carry things out. The Visionary, looking far ahead, puts off what needs doing now, and the Mediator wears out accommodating everyone without looking after their own work. They must agree on who will actually carry things out.