The title is really the question. I am a small business person who
likes to start small businesses and then sell them. I am equally T as
P in two tests. Would like best 4 styles and explanation as to why.

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 02 Aug 2005 14:31 PDT

Hello  maluca-ga,

What a fun question. I think it would help if you could tell me the
type of small business you're talking about. The Sensing vs. Intuitive
usually comes into play when you're talking about jobs that require
precision vs. creativity or concrete vs. theoretical.

Also, when you say "I am equally T as P in two tests" do you mean that
when you've taken the MBTI you've scored in the middle on both the
Thinking/Feeling and Judging/Perceiving scales?

Do you have a preference for interprative approach, i.e. Kiersey
Temperament Types or the approach taken by those using the "official"
CPP endorsed instrument? The more you can tell me about your
familiarity with the instruments and how you've used them and plan to
use them, the more likely I will be able to get you the information
you need.

http://www.cpp.com/products/mbti/index.asp
http://www.advisorteam.com/temperament_sorter/register.asp

I look forward to your clarification.

~ czh ~

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Clarification of Question by maluca-ga on 02 Aug 2005 22:58 PDT

CZH:
The question of what type of business is not yet known. The question I
am asking is to help me determine if I want to work for myself or for
someone else. If I can find a compatable person to work with me I
would prefer working for myself. This document describes me well.

http://www.101careers.com/mbti/ENTP.doc

I describe myself as Creative, Inventive, Investigative and Promoter. 

You do not see Follows through, Lacks need of encouragement
occasionally, stays on track, likes support type followup and details.
You get the picture.

There are types that do like these tasks. They also would like to be
supportive of the ENTP type, knowing and liking the sense of being
entrepreneurial. So I guess you could say I am looking for types who
like to be entrepreneurial from the supportive side while I take care
of the creative, inventive, promoter side. Thats it, exactly.

For business type it varies. Development of improved and new business
models for small owner type business. Example: You ever wonder why you
go to the paint store for those little chips often 2 or three times
then back again for paint? Or try to match a color and no old paint
left. Taken care of. No more trips and cheaper and much faster. Or, 
Why do window washers make such great money but never call again?
Theres a reason and a solution.

The person I am looking for would love to help put together these
types of models and help make them go!

As far as the ENTP/ENFP comment I am saying I equally am T as F on the
scoring. It was a 5 for each using the book Please Understand Me I and
II. As far as interprative approach, Do What You Are and Please
Understand Me are on my bookshelf. However whomever wrote the document
I have linked to above gets a big vote.

This is very important to me and I appreciate your help. Any more
clarification needed just ask. Maluca

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Clarification of Question by maluca-ga on 05 Aug 2005 21:18 PDT

Still there CZH?

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 05 Aug 2005 22:30 PDT

Hello maluca-ga,

Yes, I have lots of information for you. I'm sorry I haven't been able
to get back to you. I've had a new set of demands on my time and I'm
going to be away until Monday evening. I'm leaving the question open
so that others can answer if they're interested. If your question is
still unanswered on Tuesday I'll be happy to give you the results of
my research. I'm very familiar with the MBTI and my problem is more
concerned with how to cut down the information instead of finding
something worthwhile.

Please post whether you want to wait for my answer until Tuesday
morning or if you want other researchers to give you the answer
sooner. Thank you for your for your patience and understanding.

~ czh ~

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Clarification of Question by maluca-ga on 05 Aug 2005 23:17 PDT

I will wait for you. Maluca

Hello again maluca-ga,

Thank you for your patience in letting me answer your question despite
my having to delay my answer.

As I said before, there is a tremendous amount of information
available on the theory behind the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
personality assessment instrument and how to interpret it. I don?t
know what interpretive information you got at the time you took the
test that gave you your type codes of ENFP/ENTJ but your question
shows some familiarity with the instrument. You?ve also identified
some elements of your personality and the need to find others who will
complement you in pursuing your entrepreneurial and career interests.

I believe you will be able to put together the picture for yourself
based on the resources I?ve collected for you. First, I present you
with some general guidelines on using the MBTI and the most well-known
interpretive websites. The information conveyed by many of these sites
is very similar in content but the method of presentation varies and I
found that the variations were quite helpful.

I suggest that you review the general interpretive material before you
go on to the collection of links I?ve provided for your types. You?ve
explained that you scored in the middle of the scale for the
Thinking/Feeling dimensions so I?ve included interpretive materials
for ENFP and ENTP types. I?ve found that both for myself and my
clients that the Thinking/Feeling dimension frequently shifts
depending on life circumstances. One important point to look for on
finding personality types who will complement you are to look at how
much you rely on your Intuition in how you collect information and
seek out someone who is more of a Sensing type if you?re at the
extreme end of the scale. If you tend to be extremely theoretical or
idealistic, make sure you find someone who will be more pragmatic and
down-to-earth. The same approach of trying to find balance applies to
the Perceiving/Judging dimension which usually deals with decision
making. If you find yourself not finishing projects or always wanting
additional information, it will be important to find someone who will
drive for decisions and closure to get things done.

I?ve found some interesting reports on how this instrument is used in
organizational settings which should help you with looking at the kind
of team you want to put together. In addition, I?ve also included a
few articles that take a skeptical look at the whole idea of using
type.

I hope that the information I?ve found will be helpful. Please don?t
hesitate to ask for clarification if any of this is confusing.

Wishing you well for your career and enterprises.

~ czh ~



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MBTI INTERPRETATION
===================

http://www.cpp.com/products/mbti/index.asp
Consulting Psychologists Press
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Assessment

***** This is the official distributor of the MBTI instrument. The
website has lots of information about the various MBTI products they
offer.

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http://www.typelogic.com/
http://www.typelogic.com/afa2.html
A Functional Analysis: Relationships 2.5

A Functional Analysis of Type: Relationships 2.5 contains insights
toward understanding how the various types interact. You select (Type
by Type) any of 256 possible combinations of types to see a diagram of
the functional relationship and a description of one of 16 families of
type relationships. How do INFPs and ESFJs relate? Select these types
and read about Cohort relationships. ENTJ and ISFP? Select them to see
the graphic inner workings of the fascinating Anima encounter.
 
This electronic book also contains profiles of the 16 psychological
types and a functional analysis of each type, based on Jung's
function-attitude pairs. What makes us tick? Functional analysis
descriptions contain insights into the inner workings of preferred
functions and attitudes in the innate hierarchical orderings that
exist in our various human psyches.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBTI
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a psychological test
designed to assist a person in identifying their personality
preferences. It was developed by Katherine Briggs and her daughter
Isabel Myers during World War II, and follows from the theories of
Carl Jung as laid out in his work Psychological Types1. The phrase is
also a trademark of the publisher of the instrument, Consulting
Psychologists Press Inc., and the trademark is registered by the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust2. The test is frequently used in the
areas of pedagogy, group dynamics, employee training, leadership
training, marriage counseling, and personal development, although
scientific skeptics and academic psychologists have subjected it to
considerable criticism in research literature 3.

***** This page provides very extensive resources for exploring the MBTI.


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KEIRSEY INTERPRETATION ? TEMPERAMENT TYPES
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http://www.keirsey.com/
Keirsey Temperament Sorter

http://keirsey.com/faq.html
Keirsey Temperament Frequently Asked Questions

Question 1:  Is the "Myers-Briggs" the same as Keirsey Temperament Sorter? 
No.  The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), trademarked and
copyrighted by Consulting Psychological Press is a different
questionnaire.  However, they are very similar in result
(approximately .75 correlation).  The Myers-Briggs is a rough
indicator of temperament also, the error rate about one out of four
assessments being not correct.

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http://www.advisorteam.com/
Welcome to AdvisorTeam®, Inc.

The official online provider of the Termperament Sorter II and related
products and services for organizational, career and personal
development.

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http://users.viawest.net/~keirsey/difference.html
Keirsey Temperament versus Myers-Briggs Types.
What's the difference?

The bottom line of the difference between the theories comes in
describing the "aspects" of personality.  Keirsey has done an
in-depth, systematic analysis and synthesis of aspects of personality
for temperament: that included the temperament's unique interests,
orientation, values, self-image, and social roles.  Whereas, Myers'
brilliant simplifications of Jung's work facilitates the talking about
four scales.

***** This is an extensive discussion provided by the official Keirsey
website explaining the differences between the Keirsey and the MBTI>

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http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/keirsey-analysis.html
Keirsey Temperament and Myers Briggs® Type

Keirsey's model of temperament is based on people's "core needs" -
having the need for freedom, to be useful, to be competent or to
become. The Myers-Briggs or Jungian model of personality is based on
cognitive functions: Sensing, Intuition, Feeling and Thinking; and in
the Myers-Briggs operationalisation of Jungian theory, the arrangement
of the functions leads to 16 different personality types.

***** This is an interesting discussion of the use of the four scales
and the terminology of temperaments by Jung and the MBTI and Keirsey
and his temperament sorter.

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http://www.personalitypage.com/four-temps.html
The Four Temperaments

Some of the most important recent work done in the field on
Personality Typing has been done by David Keirsey, who has created the
theory of temperament associated with type. In his research, he has
made observations that have allowed him to combine two of the four
sets of preferences, into four distinct temperament categories. Each
of the sixteen personality types fits into one of these temperament
categories. The titles used here for the temperament types, and the
individual personality types listed within each temperament, are
Keirsey's own descriptions. You'll notice that they do not match our
labels for the types.

NT - "The Rationals" 
Keirsey describes the NT group's primary objective as "Knowledge
Seeking". The NT grouping includes the types:
ENTP - "The Inventors" 

NF - "The Idealists" 
Keirsey describes the NF group's primary objective as "Identity
Seeking". The NF grouping includes the types:

ENFP - "The Champions" 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirsey_Temperament_Sorter
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is a personality test which attempts to
identify which of four temperaments, and which of sixteen types, a
person prefers. Hippocrates, a Greek philosopher who lived from
460-377 B.C., proposed four temperaments, which are related to the
four humours. These were sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and
melancholic. In 1978, David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates reintroduced
temperament theory in modern form and identified them as Guardian,
Artisan, Idealist, and Rationalist. After developing modern
temperament theory, Keirsey discovered the MBTI, and found that by
combining intuition with the judging functions, NT and NF, and sensing
with the perceiving functions, SJ and SP, he had descriptions similar
to his four temperaments.

***** This page gives you a good basis for comparing the MBTI to the Keirsey.



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GENERAL RESOURCES FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE THEORY AND EXPLORATION
===============================================================

http://www.aptinternational.org/
Association for Psychological Type (APT)

The Association for Psychological Type, an international membership
organization, promotes the practical application and ethical use of
psychological type. We achieve this through linking members and others
interested in type with opportunities for continuous learning, sharing
experience, and creating understanding and knowledge through research.

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http://harvey.psyc.vt.edu/index.html
Job Analysis and Personality Research

***** This is the website of RJ Harvey's job analysis and personality
research site at Virginia Tech. It provides a selection of scholarly
articles on the subject of linking personality research to job
analysis and employee selection. This is a good place to explore the
theories behind the instruments.

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http://www.super-solutions.com/Newest-Personality-Tests.asp
TotalView: The Newest Generation of Personality Tests

***** This newsletter provides a good discussion of the use of
personality assessments in employee selection.

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http://www.personalitypathways.com/
Using Myers-Briggs Personality Type

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http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Personality/
Science à Social Sciences à Psychology àPersonality

***** Use this directory to explore the big picture on using
personality tests. There are dozens of resources on the MBTI, the
Keirsey and dozens of other assessment instruments.



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ENTP CHARACTERISTICS AND INTERPRETATION
=======================================

http://typelogic.com/entp.html
Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
by Marina Margaret Heiss

A Functional Analysis -- by Joe Butt
 -- Extraverted iNtuition
 -- Introverted Thinking
 -- Extraverted Feeling
 -- Introverted Sensing

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http://www.personalitypage.com/ENTP.html
Portrait of an ENTP -- The Visionary

As an ENTP, your primary mode of living is focused externally, where
you take things in primarily via your intuition. Your secondary mode
is internal, where you deal with things rationally and logically.

With Extraverted Intuition dominating their personality, the ENTP's
primary interest in life is understanding the world that they live in.
They are constantly absorbing ideas and images about the situations
they are presented in their lives. Using their intuition to process
this information, they are usually extremely quick and accurate in
their ability to size up a situation. With the exception of their ENFP
cousin, the ENTP has a deeper understanding of their environment than
any of the other types.

ENTPs are idea people. ? ENTPs are less interested in developing plans
of actions or making decisions than they are in generating
possibilities and ideas. Following through on the implementation of an
idea is usually a chore to the ENTP. ? The ENTP's auxiliary process of
Introverted Thinking drives their decision making process. Although
the ENTP is more interested in absorbing information than in making
decisions, they are quite rational and logical in reaching
conclusions. ? ENTPs are fluent conversationalists, mentally quick,
and enjoy verbal sparring with others. They love to debate issues, and
may even switch sides sometimes just for the love of the debate. ? The
ENTP personality type is sometimes referred to the "Lawyer" type. The
ENTP "lawyer" quickly and accurately understands a situation, and
objectively and logically acts upon the situation. Their Thinking side
makes their actions and decisions based on an objective list of rules
or laws. ? The least developed area for the ENTP is the
Sensing-Feeling arena. If the Sensing areas are neglected, the ENTP
may tend to not take care of details in their life. If the Feeling
part of themself is neglected, the ENTP may not value other people's
input enough, or may become overly harsh and aggressive. ? In general,
ENTPs are upbeat visionaries. They highly value knowledge, and spend
much of their lives seeking a higher understanding. They live in the
world of possibilities, and become excited about concepts, challenges
and difficulties. When presented with a problem, they're good at
improvising and quickly come up with a creative solution. Creative,
clever, curious, and theoretical, ENTPs have a broad range of
possibilities in their lives.

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http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/mb-types/entp.htm
ENTP
 -- What makes an ENTP tick?
 -- Contributions to the team of an ENTP
 -- Personal Growth
 -- Recognising Stress

***** The sections on team contributions and recognizing stress should
be especially helpful for analyzing how your type interacts with
others.

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http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/entp.htm
ENTP - The Innovator

Profile by Sandra Krebs Hirsch and Jean Kummerow
 -- Living
 -- Learning
 -- Working
 -- Leading
 -- Leisure
 -- Loving

Profile by David Keirsey
 -- Career
 -- Home
 -- Midlife
 -- Mates

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http://www.personalitypage.com/ENTP_car.html
Careers for ENTP Personality Types

http://www.personalitypage.com/ENTP_rel.html
ENTP Relationships

***** You can review the lists of strengths and weaknesses and see how
these generalized descriptions fit your own personality and past
performance record in the jobs you?ve held.

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http://www.personalitypage.com/ENTP_per.html
ENTP Personal Growth

What does Success mean to an ENTP? 
Allowing Your ENTP Strengths to Flourish 
Potential Problem Areas 
Explanation of Problems 
Solutions
Living Happily in our World as an ENTP
Ten Rules to Live By to Achieve ENTP Success 

***** This page provides a long explanation on how to apply
information about your personality type in the real world.



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ENFP CHARACTERISTICS AND INTERPRETATION
=======================================

http://typelogic.com/enfp.html
Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving 
by Marina Margaret Heiss

A Functional Analysis -- by Joe Butt
 -- Extraverted iNtuition
 -- Introverted Feeling
 -- Extraverted Thinking
 -- Introverted Sensing


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http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html
Portrait of an ENFP ? The Inspirer

As an ENFP, your primary mode of living is focused externally, where
you take things in primarily via your intuition. Your secondary mode
is internal, where you deal with things according to how you feel
about them, or how they fit in with your personal value system.

ENFPs are warm, enthusiastic people, typically very bright and full of
potential. They live in the world of possibilities, and can become
very passionate and excited about things. Their enthusiasm lends them
the ability to inspire and motivate others, more so than we see in
other types. They can talk their way in or out of anything. They love
life, seeing it as a special gift, and strive to make the most out of
it.

ENFPs have an unusually broad range of skills and talents. They are
good at most things which interest them. Project-oriented, they may go
through several different careers during their lifetime. ? An ENFP
needs to feel that they are living their lives as their true Self,
walking in step with what they believe is right. ? An ENFP needs to
focus on following through with their projects. This can be a problem
area for some of these individuals. Unlike other Extraverted types,
ENFPs need time alone to center themselves, and make sure they are
moving in a direction which is in sync with their values. ENFPs who
remain centered will usually be quite successful at their endeavors. ?
Most ENFPs have great people skills. They are genuinely warm and
interested in people, and place great importance on their
inter-personal relationships. ENFPs almost always have a strong need
to be liked. ? Because ENFPs live in the world of exciting
possibilities, the details of everyday life are seen as trivial
drudgery. They place no importance on detailed, maintenance-type
tasks, and will frequently remain oblivous to these types of concerns.
? ENFPs sometimes make serious errors in judgment. ? ENFPs are
basically happy people. They may become unhappy when they are confined
to strict schedules or mundane tasks. Consequently, ENFPs work best in
situations where they have a lot of flexibility, and where they can
work with people and ideas. Many go into business for themselves. They
have the ability to be quite productive with little supervision, as
long as they are excited about what they're doing.

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http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/mb-types/enfp.htm
ENFP
 -- What makes an ENFP tick?
 -- Contributions to the team of an ENFP
 -- Personal Growth
 -- Recognising Stress

***** The sections on team contributions and recognizing stress should
be especially helpful for analyzing how your type interacts with
others.

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http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/enfp.htm
ENFP - The Visionary

Profile by Sandra Krebs Hirsch and Jean Kummerow
 -- Living
 -- Learning
 -- Working
 -- Leading
 -- Leisure
 -- Loving

Profile by David Keirsey
 -- Career
 -- Home
 -- Midlife
 -- Mates

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http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP_car.html
Careers for ENFP Personality Types

http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP_rel.html
ENFP Relationships


***** You can review the lists of strengths and weaknesses and see how
these generalized descriptions fit your own personality and past
performance record in the jobs you?ve held.

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http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP_per.html
ENFP Personal Growth

What does Success mean to an ENFP? 
Allowing Your ENFP Strengths to Flourish 
Potential Problem Areas 
Explanation of Problems 
Solutions
Living Happily in our World as an ENFP
Ten Rules to Live By to Achieve ENFP Success 

***** This page provides a long explanation on how to apply
information about your personality type in the real world.

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http://keirsey.com/personality/nfep.html
The Portrait of the Champion Idealist (eNFp)

http://keirsey.com/personality/ntep.html
The Portrait of the Inventor Rational (eNTp)

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https://www.skillsone.com/images/smp262153.pdf
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ? Career Report

***** This is a sample 10-page report for an ENFP that might be helpful.



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TYPES AT WORK ? HARMONY AND STRESS BETWEEN TYPES
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http://www.delta-associates.com/Resource_Center/sample_reports/Sample.WORKSTYLES.pdf
Work Styles Report

***** This is a sample 14-page report comparing two people whose
styles are diametrically opposed ? ENFP and ISTJ. This document will
give you a good idea on how to use the contrasting styles for
evaluating how to balance them.

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http://tap3x.net/ENSEMBLE/main.html
The Dimensions of Human Space	Personality Type
Organizational Form, and the Structure of Human Consciousness

***** This page offers a very interesting collection of links for
evaluating the use of the MBTI in organizational settings.

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http://conflict911.com/resources/Personality_And_Learning_Styles/
Personality And Learning Styles



====================
A DOSE OF SKEPTICISM
====================

http://skepdic.com/myersb.html
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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http://www.erexchange.com/ARTICLES/default.asp?cid=%7B732BBD4F-3555-4B0A-9845-9C8A4422D33D%7D
Alphabet Soup: A Cautionary Note About Using Myers Briggs 
Thursday, April 21, 2005

What Is The MBTI Good For? 
It is obvious from the above example that the MBTI helps provide a
great deal of insight about an individual and the manner in which he
or she may react in specific situations. This is very useful for
helping people understand themselves and how they tend to view the
world. It can also help people understand others with whom they
interact and provide ideas to help promote more effective
interactions.

Why the MBTI Isn't a Good Tool for Employee Selection 
Despite its popular appeal, its pedigree, the thousands of research
studies in which it has been used, and the insight it can provide, the
MBTI is simply not suited for the majority of employee selection
situations.

Here's why: 
 -- It is a clinical tool. 
 -- It is cumbersome to use. 
 -- It is hard to link directly to key job related behaviors. 
 -- There are better tools out there for achieving the same results. 

***** This article gives an excellent short review of the MBTI as it
is used in employee selection.




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SEARCH STRATEGY
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mbti
keirsey
ENTP
ENFP
employee selection mbti
mbti types conflict
finding your complementary mbti types

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Request for Answer Clarification by maluca-ga on 10 Aug 2005 18:55 PDT

CZH:

Lots of good stuff I am sure. However my question was what behavior
styles best support my behavior style at work. What are the best 4 and
why? I really need no information other than that. If it is somewhere
inside the substantial information and links you provided I would
prefer to see just it revealed as a answer. Thanks, Maluca

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Clarification of Answer by czh-ga on 11 Aug 2005 00:43 PDT

Hello again maluca-ga,

The MBTI is a complex instrument and needs to be interpreted on an
individual basis. The reason I gave you all the links to the
descriptions of your type was so that you could first review them and
see how comfortable you felt about them being appropriate for how you
see yourself. Each of those interpretive sites also have the
descriptions of all other types so that you could browse through and
see which ones are complementary to you. It?s not possible for me to
do this for you because I don?t know where you are on each of the
scales (with the exception of the T/F, which you said you were right
in the middle.)

I included some links that give you examples of detailed
interpretations of these assessment instruments to help you understand
how to examine your own type and compare it to others.

http://www.delta-associates.com/Resource_Center/sample_reports/Sample.WORKSTYLES.pdf

This Work Styles Report presents an evaluation of two people who are
completely opposite on the MBTI. One is an ENFP, like you, and the
other is an ISTJ. This 14-page report takes you through all the work
related issues that are impacted by your personality type and helps
you see the possible problem areas and how you might be able to
overcome them.

https://www.skillsone.com/images/smp262153.pdf

This is a 10-page Career Report for an ENFP. It gives you a detailed
approach for interpreting what this type means. It highlights areas of
strengths and challenges. The areas that are highlighted as challenges
might help define skills or personality strengths that will have to be
provided by someone with a different type in your work setting.

I?ve included some articles to help you review the use of the MBTI in
the workplace. It is not recommended for use in recruiting and
employee selection. It is much more suitable for use in organizational
development and team building. I?ve included the links so you can
study these issues since the price of your question does not permit a
full explanation of these factors from me. The best use of the MBTI is
to help you understand yourself and to help you recognize the
difference among types. Once you grasp the various type styles, you
can adjust you own behavior and work out solutions for better
cooperation with others.

So, there is no easy formula for determining which four styles would
best support you in your work. There are simply too many unknown
variables to be able to predict. The support can be expressed in
finding people who are similar to you who will help you quickly get on
the same wave length and get creative in developing your products. The
support can also be expressed in finding people who will compensate
for your style. For example, if you?re an extreme Perceiving type and
never finish anything, you?ll need a Judging type who will make sure
deadlines are met. If you?re always thinking of theoretical
possibilities because you?re an extreme iNtuitive, you?ll need a
strong Sensing type who?ll do the bean counting and keep track of
inventory.

The nature of the business and products you?re interested in will also
influence what type is likely to be interested in working with you.
You?ll need different personality types depending on whether you?re
dealing with tangibles, services, or intellectual property.

I wish I could give you a simple formula for determining the best
types who can support you, but the MBTI simply doesn?t work that way.
If you?re not willing or interested in taking the time to read the
materials I?ve collected, I suggest that you find a coach or counselor
who is experienced in interpreting this instrument and set up a
meeting to get an individualized interpretation based on your scores
and your personal situation. Simply knowing potential partners? or
employees? MBTI scores will not help you with making good decisions
about who to hire or partner with.

I hope that my clarification is not too frustrating for you. If you?re
not inclined to study this instrument and its uses, I suggest that you
find other ways of qualifying people to work with you.

Best wishes for your projects.

~ czh ~

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Request for Answer Clarification by maluca-ga on 11 Aug 2005 12:28 PDT

CZH:
This is absurd. You certainly do not expect to be paid for telling me
you could not answer my question. I did not ask for links to
investigate the MBTI or my personal behavior style. I asked for an
answer to a question. If you could not answer the question why did you
post an answer? Maluca

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Clarification of Answer by czh-ga on 11 Aug 2005 16:16 PDT

Hello again maluca-ga,

I?m shocked and surprised at your harsh tone since I?ve definitely
answered your question in great detail. I?m sorry that I misunderstood
your level of interest in the workings of this instrument and your
willingness to make your own decisions based on your more accurate
knowledge of your situation than I could possibly get from the short
description you?ve given of your situation.

Taking the information you?ve shared, I suggest that the types that
would be most complementary to you are: ENFJ, ESTJ, ESFJ, ISFJ. My
rationale for selecting these is below.

I suggest that you choose members for your company/team who are strong
on the J or Judging quality on the J/P scale since this seems to be
the area of greatest challenge for you. Here is a short review of all
of the J types.

ENFJ ? Sage ? Idealist (Yes. Strong and empathetic communicators and organizers.)
ESTJ ? Enforcer Guardian (Yes. Action oriented, analytical project managers.)
ESFJ ? Helper  Guardian (Yes. You seem to have sufficient empathetic strengths.)
ENTJ ? Leader Rational (No. You seem to have strong leadership
capabilities yourself.)
INFJ ? Mystic Idealist (No. More contemplative than what you need for
an entrepreneur.)
ISTJ ? Reliant Guardian (No. Too committed to structure and
procedures, may be too inflexible.)
ISFJ ? Nurturer Guardian (Yes. Quietly supportive, committed and loyal.)
INTJ - Free-Thinker Rational (No. Very independent. May not fit into
small organization.)

Since you have a strong balance between Thinking and Feeling don?t
worry too much about this scale. Either will be compatible. All
Artisans on the Keirsey temperament sorter are P types and this seems
to be your most dominant quality so I don?t think you need to look
someone else with this temperament type. Below I've given you
suggestion on how to approach evaluating the possible contribution of
candidates' scores on the E/I and S/N scales.


I suggest you choose fellow Extroverts for energy and compatibility. 
 -- ENFJ ? Sage 
 -- ESTJ ? Enforcer 
 -- ESFJ ? Helper 
 -- ENTJ ? Leader

If you would like to have someone with a deeper, more reflective
approach, I suggest that you choose some Introverts to balance your
need for quick action.
 -- INFJ ? Mystic 
 -- ISTJ ? Reliant
 -- ISFJ ? Nurturer 
 -- INTJ - Free-Thinker 

You seem to have a very strong inclination to the Intuitive and
choosing other Intuitives will probably increase your creativity and
innovation.
 -- ENFJ - Sage
 -- ENTJ - Leader
 -- INFJ - Mystic
 -- INTJ - Free-Thinker

If you want people who can bring a more tactical approach to your
projects, I suggest that you choose some Sensing types for their
attention to the concrete and tangible.
 -- ESTJ ? Enforcer
 -- ESFJ - Helper
 -- ISTJ - Reliant
 -- ISFJ - Nurturer

The charts and interpretive profiles in the following links are very
helpful to see the relationships of the various types.

http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/
http://www.drf.org/hearing_health/Archive/2004/winter04_whatsyourpersonality_ex.htm

Although you don?t want to hear this, I still suggest that you either
read the material I?ve provided or meet with a coach or counselor who
is experienced with this instrument. Without in-depth examination of
your type and your experience using the MBTI is akin to the casual use
of horoscopes or tarot cards.

I wish you well in all your enterprises.

~ czh ~

Hello,

I am an entrepreneur who is also seemingly balanced between ENTP and ENFP.

I absolutely loved your question.

This researcher must have been smoking crack when he told you to
surround yourself with J's only. That is ridiculous.

First of all, ENFP's generally resist passing judgement until they
feel they have a complete understanding. And people who don't do that
(or are more accustomed to reaching judgements) bug the heck out of
them! Especially if the ENFP is the one being judged.

I understand the researcher's logic but I don't think you should only
look at working with J's.

ENFP's just don't like judgement very much. Passing or receiving. Out
of balance, this is a big fault.

Usually if I am annoyed by someone, they are heavy on the judging.

I still want an answer to this. And sadly it looks like we'll have to
figure it out on our own.

Let's have a crack at this in the comment section.

Are you looking for the four best personality types for people of our
type to work with? Or are you looking for ideas on how to better
organize your work-life/style?

In either case I am interested in the answer myself.