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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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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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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