Kiley Laughlin
19 / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: archetypal leader, Army officers, ESTJ, Extraversion, Green Berets, INTJ, Introversion, introverted intuition (Ni), ISTJ, Kiley Laughlin, leadership, mentorship, military, objective, persona, subjective, U.S. Army
April 16, 2014

I concluded that I simply did not have the requisite attributes to lead. I now realize that a number of other members of my section were also introverted, and that the majority of people in the unit, Green Berets or otherwise, were not necessarily extraverted; but the organization itself wore a collective persona that was extraverted in appearance.
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Carol Shumate
19 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Carol Shumate, control, dominant function, Hero archetype, Hitler, inflation, megalomania, narcissism, paranoia, perfectionism, persona, power, self-esteem, social role, superior function
April 16, 2014

Some of the most difficult people to deal with are extraordinarily competent but refuse to share power or flex to consider other perspectives. Thus, they become obstructionists in contemporary society; and numerous studies of modern corporations have found “a disproportional number of narcissistic individuals [in] executive leadership positions.”
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Mary Anne Sutherland
19 / Teaching and Learning Styles
Tags: ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, attention deficit, dropouts, education, ENFP, ESTJ, ESTP, Extraversion, Extraverted Intuition, Introversion, introverted feeling, Intuitive, ISFP, ISTJ, learning disability, Mary Anne Sutherland, memory, misdiagnosis, NVLD, pseudo-ADD, Sensing, underachievement
April 16, 2014

Delivering education that gets today’s students ready for the modern world must incorporate flexibility, diversification, and individualization. Students have moved past the structure of traditional classrooms. They have different problems, different gifts, and dramatically different brains. Educators need to refocus their efforts on teaching individuals.
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