ENTJ

ENTJ (Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging) is one of the sixteen personality types from personality type systems based on C.G. Jung, of which the best-known is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Under 2 percent of the population rank as ENTJ.

Referring to Keirsey, ENTJs belong to the temperament of the Rationals and are called Fieldmarshals.

ENTJs have a natural tendency to marshall and direct. This may be expressed with the charm and finesse of a world leader or with the insensitivity of a cult leader. The ENTJ requires little encouragement to make a plan. One ENTJ put it this way... "I make these little plans that really don't have any importance to anyone else, and then feel compelled to carry them out." While "compelled" may not describe ENTJs as a group, nevertheless the bent to plan creatively and to make those plans reality is a common theme for NJ types. - Joe Butt, University of Virginia

ENTJ is sometimes considered to be the ideal type in business - for example MBA students who take the MBTI are expected to test as ENTJ. One could argue however that ESTJ are more apt at the routine of working one's way up in a large business organization than the visionary and original ENTJ.

MBTI cognitive functions
The attributes of each personality form a hierarchy. This represents the person's "default" pattern of behavior in their day to day life. The Dominant is the personality type's preferred role, the task they feel most comfortable with. The auxiliary function is the role they feel the next most comfortable with. It serves to support and expand on the dominant function. One of these first two will always be an information gathering function (sensing or intuition) and the other will be a decision making function(thinking or feeling) in some order. The tertiary function is less developed than the Dominant and Auxiliary functions, but develops as the person matures and provides roundness of ability. The inferior function is the personality types Achille's heel. This is the function they are least comfortable with. Like the tertiary function, this function strengthens with maturity.


 * Dominant Extroverted Thinking (Te)
 * Auxiliary Introverted Intuition (Ni)
 * Tertiary Extroverted Sensing (Se)
 * inferior Introverted Feeling (Fi)

Famous People
U.S. Presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt Richard M. Nixon


 * Benny Goodman, "Big Band" leader
 * General Norman Schwarzkopf
 * Harrison Ford
 * Steve Martin
 * Whoopi Goldberg
 * Sigourney Weaver
 * Margaret Thatcher
 * Al Gore (U.S. Vice President, 1993-2001)
 * Lamar Alexander (former governor, U.S. Secretary of Education)
 * Les Aspen, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
 * Candace Bergen (Murphy Brown)
 * Dave Letterman
 * Newt Gingrich
 * Patrick Stewart (STNG: Jean Luc Picard)
 * Robert James Waller (author: The Bridges of Madison County)
 * Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask)
 * Steve Jobs
 * Hitler
 * Penn Jillette
 * Bill Gates
 * Quentin Tarantino
 * Jack London