One may suspect that the motivation behind Allardyce's quotes is a desire to put himself in the same bracket as Mourinho and Ferguson, rather than to provide a particular insightful analysis of manager "types".
Fat Sam puts himself in the same category as Mourinho and Fergerson. He'd be a good candidate for the Apprentice with that sort of talk.
In answer to the question though, I think Lambert is what I would call 'non-reactive'. That is, he tends to need to react to circumstances when his tactics don't work, and then doesn't really do anything to change it. O'Neill was the same.