Creative You by David B. Goldstein & Otto Kroeger

Author:David B. Goldstein & Otto Kroeger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Paperback

The Commander (ENTJ)—Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging

Do you know confident and commanding leaders who have both ideas and plans? Someone who envisions the future and also makes the future happen? ENTJs show their creativity by strategically executing their plans to reach their goals, and they become leaders in virtually every field. If they are involved in the arts, ENTJs “maintain a conceptual command over scores of people—audiences, art buyers, potential readers, professional clients, community, and society— while seizing vast spaces figuratively and indirectly.” 61

With so many ideas to consider, ENTJs take project selection seriously, using their own experiences to develop their own set of laws and provide standards by which everything is judged. “Everything that conforms to the rules will be right; everything that violates them will be wrong; and everything not covered by them will be unimportant.” 62 These rules provide clear roadmaps that attract followers.

ENTJs trust their imaginations but quickly judge their ideas for merit. Having an aura of control and organization, their strongest function is Thinking, and they express their point of view with clarity. Intuition, their second-best function, is internalized. With this engine under their hood that produces infinite possibilities as they enlist their TJ (Thinking Judger) preferences, they make objective decisions swiftly. This combination keeps them realistic but limits their choices, as they often settle for the first acceptable solutions.

What these Commanders create shows select details, as they are happy to leave the finer—and in their mind, inconsequential—aspects to others. They prepare rough sketches or outlines as they record and plan their visions. Although they enjoy abstract thought, all the complexities and vagueness pass through their Thinking filter, resulting in expressions that are clear and direct.

One ENTJ economist’s work involves using theories and data to build models. To solve a problem, he says,

I first do what I can to understand everything I can—what people are saying and what has been done in the field. Then I put all of this into a mind map, and I use that to relate everything to everything, and ask a lot of “What if?” questions. This helps me define where I need to go. As I become familiar with the data, and look at what fits and what doesn’t, I start to look for patterns [to] decide if I need more data where there are holes.

He said that he systematically looks for alternatives, new questions, new interpretations, and solutions to decide where he is and how to efficiently get to where he wants to be: “There are always client-related time constraints for bid proposals, meetings, and court appearances (as an expert witness) that make you have to stop playing around.” He calls this “triage,” where he prioritizes what is important. Always on the lookout for new software and tools, he finds that “You can have a tool over here and somehow realize you can use it for a problem over there. And perhaps through subconscious or heightened awareness, those ‘Aha!’ moments come about.”

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