ENTJ Personality Type According to MBTI Typology

The ENTJ personality type is one of the sixteen personality types according to the MBTI typology. ENTJ is referred to as “Leader”.

The basic characteristics of this personality type are:

• Analytical skills, ability to determine a strategy, a good organizer
• Can lead subordinates
• Likes to plan
• Does not like isolation
• Consistency and rationality
• Does not mind confrontation
• Likes criticism
• Notes contradictions and reveres those who report them

Kroeger, Thuesen and Rutledge indicate following characteristics and recommendations:

• At work: encourages others with strong visions and leads to their realization
• Professional development: must learn to respect individual differences in approach to work - a different time and space that others need
• Leadership position: demanding leader motivating to meet the goals

ENTJ personality type in practice: Every type of person is suited for different work. People with ENTJ personality type usually excel in organizations in the following professions:

• CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
• Crisis Manager
• Entrepreneur
• Facility Manager
• Financial Analyst
• IT consultant
• Lawyer
• Lecturer / Instructor
• System Analyst

Following important people had the ENTJ personality type:

• Bill Gates - Microsoft Founder
• Edward Teller - theoretical physicist
• Franklin D. Roosevelt - American President
• Margaret Thatcher - British Prime Minister