I'm ENTJ how about you?
Posted by tom | Oct 19, 2011According to the most recent testing, for a Personal Foundations in Ministry class (Evangelical Theological Seminary), my preferences lie with what has been termed ENTJ. In case you're not familiar with the Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorTM (MBTITM), I'm Extroverted (people person), iNuitive (sees possibilities), Thinking (makes decisions based on objective analysis), and Judging (organized/systematic). Supposedly, I'm one of "Life's Natural Leaders."
Honestly, I'm not much for these tests. I think I took my first at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for Teaching (1991) and haven't been convinced of their authoritative value. I appreciate Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen's TypeTalk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work (Dell: 1988) focuses on the MBTITM as a preference indicator on a scale.
Questions:
- If you've taken the MBTITM, where do you fall?
- Do you find the MBTITM (or similar tests), helpful (personally and/or for those with whom you work)?
- Am I really an ENTJ? If not, how would you characterize me? Note: For more info on personality types, click here.
- Where does Theresa land on the chart? Do opposites attract? Or are we more alike than different?
More coming . . .
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