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Consultants and personality types - a clear pattern? |
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Consultants and personality types - a clear pattern? |
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03/26/2002 |
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Anyone know about Myers Briggs personality types? It seems to me that the typical consultant is an ENTJ type, or maybe INTJ or ENTP.
For the uninitiated, ENTJ =
E: extraverted (focused on the real world more than ideas, talkative as opposed to more withdrawn)
---> helps consultants with all their people interaction and the real world of business problems
N: intuitive (perceives the world through intuitions rather than relying on the 5 senses - concerned with possibilities rather than the present, often big picture rather than details
---> helps consultants analyse problems and look for solutions, as well as drive on towards career possibilities
T: thinking (makes decisions based on what is logical rational sensible, as opposed to making decisions based on how it might affect other people particularly their feelings)
---> helps consultants thrive on efficiency and loath incompetence, and enjoy problems that are based round "things" more than "people"
J: decisive (prefers decision making rather than perceiving, getting things finished and over with rather than contemplating the world)
---> helps consultants stay on top of their busy schedule
It seems the N and the T are crucial for consultants, particularly I'd suggest the T.
Why do I bring this up? Not because I'm a psychologist, but because I'm a recent graduate about to apply for McKinsey, and I'm an INFP....and I don't think I'd enjoy consulting because I'm strongly "F" not "T"
Any thoughts? Anyone want to prove my hypothesis wrong? :-)
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