Carol Shumate
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: archetypal possession, authenticity, auxiliary function, Bruce Willis, collective, complex, Die Hard, Donald Trump, election, ESFP, ESTP, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hamlet, Han Solo, Hillary Clinton, individuation, inferior function, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, ISTP, Jax Heller, Johnny Depp, judging function, judgment, leaders, leadership, Mafia, mob, perception, persona, persuasiveness, Pirates of the Caribbean, Polonius, presidency, president, projection, Robert Boozer, Sons of Anarchy, spontaneity, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Matrix, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, type bias
October 4, 2018

Often extraverted sensing leaders are considered more authentic than other types. Trump’s supporters viewed him as trustworthy (“honest,” “outside of the political corruption,” and “not a liar”) while they viewed Clinton as untrustworthy (“belongs behind bars,” “cannot be trusted,” and “nothing but lies”). Even Clinton’s own supporters expressed concern about her trustworthiness.
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Cash Keahey
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Andrew Jackson, Bernie Sanders, Cash Keahey, democracy, Donald Trump, elitism, ESFP, ESTP, exclusive populism, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inclusive populism, inflation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), leadership, Lyndon B. Johnson, mob, populism, presidency, president, shadow, Theodore Roosevelt, type development
October 4, 2018

Populism has acquired a negative reputation, and this is especially true now with the presidency of Donald Trump, but many other political leaders have used extraverted sensation tactics and policies to rally the cause of the common man. This is true not only of Andrew Jackson—in whom extraverted sensation (Se) seems to be dominant—but also of Lyndon B. Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Steve Myers
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Andrew Samuels, authenticity, Bill George, C. G. Jung, collective unconscious, Edinger, ego-self axis, Epimetheus, hero myth, integrity, James MacGregor Burns, John Beebe, leadership, Lee Barr, opposites, personal unconscious, Prometheus, spine of personality, Steve Myers, transformation, transformational leadership
October 4, 2018

To develop our authentic individual self, we need to go deeper, into the cultural and phylogenetic layers of the collective unconscious. Importantly, from a leadership point of view, we become more aware of what our culture is repressing—aware of the unintended consequences of the culture even though we are participating in it. This enables us to progress, as individuals and as a society.
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Kiley Laughlin
33 / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Carol Dweck, CIA, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, Department of Defense (DoD), extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted thinking (Te), force multiplier, growth mindset, intelligence analysis, interpretation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), ISFJ, judging functions, judgment, KFOR, Kiley Laughlin, Kosovo, leadership, military intelligence, NATO, operational environment, Richard Heuer, type bias
January 10, 2018

Military intelligence is a personality-centric career field because of its reliance on the subjective factor, which tends to creep into every intelligence assessment regardless of how analytically rigorous it attempts to be. To help reduce bias, intelligence professionals have developed brainstorming analytic techniques so that an analytical cell can offset individual biases.
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Pam Rechel
28 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: 360° feedback, abrasive leaders, Boss Whispering® Institute, coaching, critical thinking, ENTP, executive coaching, INTP, Laura Crawshaw, leadership, Pam Rechel
September 8, 2016

He was so struck by his MBTI® assessment that it took us three coaching sessions to get through the report. He saw how his type preferences heavily influenced how he preferred to work. After he presented his preferences from his Type Verifier, one of his superiors said that she thought he was being underutilized in the department.
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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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