Hey, welcome to Personality Hacker, my name is Joel Mark Witt.
I’m Antonia Dodge. Today we're talking about the ENTJ personality
type in the Myers-Briggs system or the "Effectiveness/Perspectives" person in the genius system.
Yeah, we're going to do a bit of a riff on this personality type. Not quite as granular
as we will in other forms of content but just kind of do an overview on our impressions
of this type and some of the things that they experience and deal with. Now, the very famous
component to the ENTJ, if you're familiar at all of Myers-Briggs, is that they tend
to have what we call the CEO personality type. A lot of the great military leaders of the
past, a lot of the great CEOs of current and past history, they are of this personality
type because this personality type, it has a tendency to be a very strong leader.
If you're ENTJ and you're listening right now, we're going to make this snappy so get
back to what you got to do. Yeah, exactly.
We'll get it going, don't worry. We'll get to the point.
Good call. The reason why we call them effectiveness perspectives in the genius style system is
that they lead with a thinking process that we have nicknamed 'effectiveness'. That is
basically creating systems that have long range sustainability. Effectiveness is a little
bit more than expediency or even efficiency. Effectiveness is about creating systems that
are replicable that other people can implement as well in order to make it this infrastructure
that everybody can benefit from. What's really amazing about the ENTJ is that they coupled
this with the process, an intuitive process called perspectives, which gives them the
ability to see long range into the future. This is one of the reasons why they make such
great military strategists, great leaders and great CEOs of companies.
Yeah, if you're an ENTJ, you're probably to attracted to stuff like military strategy.
You probably maybe played the game 'Risk' when you were a kid. You probably are attracted
to leadership qualities and you probably exhibit a lot of these yourself and you're able to
make decisions rather quickly and decisively and usually they are very good decisions you
make. Yeah, actually, ENTJs are some of the most
decisive and the most quick to make decisions of all the types which is another reason why
they make great strategists and leaders is that they make quick decisions and don't really
question them very much. Now, that works for good and for evil and there can be times when
they don't take in quite the right information in order to be making those quick decisions.
They really need to be focused on developing that co-pilot process of perspectives. Perspectives
gives them the opportunity to go inside, sort of [mull 00:02:38] over the information, taking
more and more content and get more of a zoomed-out perspective in order to make the best decisions
possible. In the genius style assessment, we go further
into this type about how to develop the perspectives piece and not to get too expeditious, maybe
too efficient and go the [tenural 00:03:04] process of what we call sensation, which is
just looking for in-the-moment information in order to make a decision. Going into the
perspectives process which requires more patience but also has higher payoff, is one of the
best ways to make amazing decisions that we all benefit from. We recommend that you take
the genius style assessment at personalityhacker.com, if you believe you might be in the ENTJ, and
consider going for the premium content. The premium content really breaks down the dynamic
of what's going on inside you and gives you recommendations on how to be the best version
of any ENTJ possible. Yeah, if you're going to grow as a leader
and grow as a person or however you're going to grow, your personality can really help
you if you understand the nuances of your personality. It's a great lens for personal
development and personal growth. What do you think is one secret about ENTJs
or effectiveness perspectives people that most people wouldn't know?
I would say for my perspective that the ENTJ is a fiercely loyal person. They have loyalty.
When I saw loyalty it's going to peer to the people that they're loyal to in the outside
world they're positionally loyal. That right hand man that's been at the side all the time
being a supporter or a different person in your life, it looks like they're positionally
loyal but I actually believe it's a heart loyalty, it's a very personal, deep-felt loyalty
that doesn't always get communicated to the person you're loyal to. That loyalty, sometimes
gets caught up in that positional loyalty, but it really is part of their heart. They
really do feel very fiercely loyal at a personal level for that in their emotions.
Yeah, I think I would agree with you. My brother is an ENTJ. I would say that that's something
that I've always admired about him is that he has this strong sense of integrity. But
even more so it's that loyalty and it could look positional, it could look like it's not
really personal to the individual. But I think that once you're in, once they are, the ENTJ
is loyal to you, it is definitely personal, it is about the personal relationship with
you. I would agree. I would say that that's a great number one secret about ENTJs that
most people don't know. Yeah.
Thank you very much for joining us on the riff of the ENTJ personality tpye or the effectiveness
perspectives type in the genius system.