Keirsey Temperament Sorter II Results
Your Temperament is Rational
: NT
Your variant temperament is Fieldmarshal
: ENTJ
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Details of questionaire:
E+0 N+4 T+8 J+0
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The Portrait of a Fieldmarshal (eNTj)
- Copyrighted © 1996 Prometheus Nemesis Book Company.
- Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is marshalling
or situational organizing role that reaches the highest development in eNTjs.
As this kind of role is practiced some contingency organizing is necessary,
so that the second suit of the eNTj's intellect is devising contingency plans.
Structural and functional engineering, though practiced in some degree in
the course of organizational operations, tend to be not nearly as well developed
and are soon outstripped by the rapidly growing skills in organizing. But
it must be said that any kind of strategic exercize tends to bring added strength
to engineering as well as organizing skills.
As the organizing capabilities the eNTjs increase so does their desire to
let others know about whatever has come of their organizational efforts. So
they tend to take up a directive role in their social exchanges. On the other
hand they have less and less desire, if they ever had any, to inform others.
Hardly more than two percent of the total population, the eNTjs are bound
to lead others, and from an early age they can be observed taking command
of groups. In some cases, eNTjs simply find themselves in charge of groups,
and are mystified as to how this happened. But the reason is that eNTjs have
a strong natural urge to give structure and direction wherever they are-to
harness people in the field and to direct them to achieve distant goals. They
resemble SJtes in their tendency to establish plans for a task, enterprise,
or organization, but eNTjs search more for policy and goals than for regulations
and procedures.
They cannot not build organizations, and cannot not push to implement their
goals. When in charge of an organization, whether in the military, business,
education, or government, eNTjs more than any other type desire (and generally
have the ability) to visualize where the organization is going, and they seem
able to communicate that vision to others. Their organizational and coordinating
skills tends to be highly developed, which means that they are likely to be
good at systematizing, ordering priorities, generalizing, summarizing, at
marshalling evidence, and at demonstrating their ideas. Their ability to organize,
however, may be more highly developed than their ability to analyze, and the
eNTj leader may need to turn to an eNTp or iNTp to provide this kind of input.
eNTjs will usually rise to positions of responsibility and enjoy being executives.
They are tireless in their devotion to their jobs and can easily block out
other areas of life for the sake of their work. Superb administrators in any
field-medicine, law, business, education, government, the military-eNTjs organize
their units into smooth-functioning systems, planning in advance, keeping
both short-term and long-range objectives well in mind. For the eNTj, there
must always be a goal-directed reason for doing anything, and people's feelings
usually are not sufficient reason. They prefer decisions to be based on impersonal
data, want to work from well thought-out plans, like to use engineered operations-and
they expect others to follow suit. They are ever intent on reducing bureaucratic
red tape, task redundancy, and aimless confusion in the workplace, and they
are willing to dismiss employees who cannot get with the program and increase
their efficiency. Although eNTjs are tolerant of established procedures, they
can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective
in accomplishing its goal. eNTjs root out and reject ineffectiveness and inefficiency,
and are impatient with repetition of error.