Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Richard is a Fieldmarshal

So Richard took the quiz below and he is an ENTJ. I am not sure if this is completely him...let us know what you think! This is what D. Keirsey had to say about being an ENTJ:

The Portrait of the FieldMarshal Rational (ENTJ)

Copyrighted © 1996-2005 Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is marshalling or situational organizing role that reaches the highest development in Fieldmarshals. As this kind of role is practiced some contingency organizing is necessary, so that the second suit of the Fieldmarshal's intellect is devising contingency plans.

As the organizing capabilities the Fieldmarshal increase so does their desire to let others know about whatever has come of their organizational efforts. So they tend to take up a directive role in their social exchanges. On the other hand they have less and less desire, if they ever had any, to inform others.

Hardly more than two percent of the total population, the Fieldmarshals are bound to lead others, and from an early age they can be observed taking command of groups. In some cases, Fieldmarshals simply find themselves in charge of groups, and are mystified as to how this happened. But the reason is that Fieldmarshals have a strong natural urge to give structure and direction wherever they are -- to harness people in the field and to direct them to achieve distant goals. They resemble Supervisors in their tendency to establish plans for a task, enterprise, or organization, but Fieldmarshals search more for policy and goals than for regulations and procedures.

Fieldmarshals will usually rise to positions of responsibility and enjoy being executives. They are tireless in their devotion to their jobs and can easily block out other areas of life for the sake of their work. Superb administrators in any field -- medicine, law, business, education, government, the military -- Fieldmarshals organize their units into smooth-functioning systems, planning in advance, keeping both short-term and long-range objectives well in mind. For the Fieldmarshals, there must always be a goal-directed reason for doing anything, and people's feelings usually are not sufficient reason. They prefer decisions to be based on impersonal data, want to work from well thought-out plans, like to use engineered operations -- and they expect others to follow suit. They are ever intent on reducing bureaucratic red tape, task redundancy, and aimless confusion in the workplace, and they are willing to dismiss employees who cannot get with the program and increase their efficiency. Although Fieldmarshals are tolerant of established procedures, they can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective in accomplishing its goal. Fieldmarshals root out and reject ineffectiveness and inefficiency, and are impatient with repetition of error.

10 comments:

Trey said...

Hmm...that is interesting. I'm not sure how accurate that is, but I'm sure not gonna cross Richard and find out. ;)

Corrie said...

Well, Richard, it's not to late to go back to law school and be a KICK-ASS ATTORNEY!! OR you could be a superhero by night and a lawyer by day... and you could be known for your stylish underwear... Richard is "THE BRIEF." See, b/c it's law-related... and... it's underpants... okay time for coffee.

Trey said...

Wow...I think somebody needs to lay off the mary jane.

Trey said...

And by "mary jane," I mean "doobies," not Richard's cousin.

Middle School Survivor said...

Can you really see Richard as an attorney? I still think i'm going to end up with Mr. Sensitive-Ponytail-Man. :)
Richard really thinks that this sounds like him...I have no idea who he is anymore!
Wasn't my stuff right on target though?! Now that was weird!
Em

Trey said...

Of course, now if Sydney turns out to be trouble, you can always blame her "schizophrenic" father.

Trey said...

Your little storkie says that it's 120 days away. For some reason, that makes it seem SOOOOOO close!

Middle School Survivor said...

161 days down...119 to go! I am still hoping that we only have 105 days to go. :)

Trey said...

Hey, Em! Are you gonna be doing any provocative magazine covers like Britney? You wouldn't have had to dye your hair black.

Middle School Survivor said...

If my stomach would look like a NORMAL pregnant stomach, I might consider it...but right now I'm going to have to pass. Maybe we could just put Richard on the cover.