ENTJ
From
Conversations with
Strategist Mobilizers
The following
is adapted from Linda V. Berens and Dario
Nardi, The
16 Personality Types: Descriptions for
Self-Discovery (Telos Publications,
1999) *Used with permission.
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Not organizing and not problem solving
is hard for me. I am most comfortable
in the idea development stage—the
push for putting things together, new
solutions, and improvements to take us
to the next step. I have several dimensions
I work in.
My
focus has always been on finding what’s
preventing us from doing what we need
to do. If it’s lack of confidence
or motivation, the solution is building
that. If it’s lack of skills, it’s
building skills. If it’s rules or
other inhibitors, I work to eliminate
those. I value people, but I am quick
to judge their value to the system and
quick to judge my personal desire to be
involved with them. I stand off if they
don’t meet my standards quickly,
which can make me hard to know, and I
think I am unwilling to get into other
people’s motivations.
My
response to making a mistake is, “Did
you learn anything? If so, great, it was
worth it, and don’t make the same
mistake again.” This kind of critiquing
is easy for me, and I admire—and
like to have around me—people who
have a real, genuine concern for others
and who see the positives. But then there
is a time when I sit back and say people
have to get on board with the way I see
things because it’s the right way
to go. It took me a while to learn the
value of cutting people some slack. Although
I appear to dominate, when people get
to know me, I really don’t. I let
them do their own thing. With people I
judge as friendly or want to get to know,
I open up quickly, although I don’t
actually go out and do things to make
others like me.
I
respect wisdom and kindness and competent,
knowledgeable people who are willing to
share with others. I won’t buy into
anything just because the person who says
it is the leader. It has to make sense
to me—consistent and free of contradictions.
If it’s a plan, I have to believe
it’s doable. If it’s a philosophy,
it must match mine from the outset. I
think integrity means keeping one’s
word and sticking to my espoused principles
even when it’s easier not to. Honesty
is important.
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really value progress, learning, and knowledge
and have an intense need to know things.
Probably this is where I get myself into
a lot of projects because it is the opportunity
to try something new. I tend to over research,
and I have an innate ability to handle
a great number of diverse things almost
simultaneously. I can watch TV and finish
a project and read a magazine all at the
same time. I think I don’t know how
to relax. I can sit down and actually
go through and identify the problem and
gather alternatives and do a mental brainstorm
by myself to come up with different alternatives.
I force myself to see if I am not looking
at something disjointedly or parochially
before I come to a conclusion. And I try
to look at the small things in order to
look at the big picture, just using plain
logic and connecting the dots to prognosticate
what the likely outcomes are. Often the
first conclusion was the right one anyway.
I
actually believe you can do anything if
you set your mind to it and are willing
to pay the price. I will ask myself if
I am willing to pay the price.
I
tend to push to get the job done, sometimes
without regard to others’ feelings,
and I hate repeating myself. Listening
is a problem for me because I have probably
already thought out things thoroughly,
done my homework, and reached an answer
before I even get to the stage of presenting
it to other people. Similarly, I may get
upset with others’ behavior, but
it is almost never personalized, which
can be a drawback because then I haven’t
considered what caused the behavior and
if I should make some kind of reconciliation.
I
am my own worst critic. I want perfect
achievement of myself, and sometimes I
have a fear of suddenly waking up and
being known as someone who doesn’t
really know anything.
I
love to discover new approaches and really
prefer creating and beginning things,
organizing projects and programs, and
then teaching someone else how to do them
and handing them off. Although if someone
has a better idea, then let’s go
with it, and if the system’s values
and mechanisms line up for me, whoever
the leader is, then I guess I am probably
one of the most loyal. Probably my goals
are patience, wisdom, and discipline—wisdom
to focus on the right priorities and correct
decisions and patience to take the time
to listen.
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Search & Apply to New Jobs The
following is adapted
from Linda V. Berens and Dario Nardi,
The
16 Personality Types: Descriptions for
Self-Discovery (Telos Publications,
1999) *Used with permission.
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