All About the ENTJ Personality Type

ENTJ's have been described as the leader of leaders. Not just managers and supervisors, but the big boss, the Chief.

They are well suited for grasping complex situations, absorbing vast amounts of information and for being very decisive.

Their decisiveness, their ability to see future possibilities, and their outgoing nature add up to make them the leader of leaders.

Very confident in what they know and what they can do.

They enjoy debate and may appear argumentative at times.

More Chief Executive's (CEO) are ENTJ than any other type

ENTJ's make up about 3% of the population, so they are relatively rare, especially female ENTJ's which run only 1.5%. Males run 4.5%.

Outgoing, logical, objective, and intellectual, they may appear cold and hard to get close to.

• Management allows people to be self directed

• There are several opportunities to demonstrate competence

• The culture appreciates fair but tough decision making

• The work offers plenty of opportunities to make decisions

• You are able to maintain control over your projects

• The atmosphere favors the intellectual over the emotional

• The work allows you the opportunity to work with and meet a wide variety of people, rather than working alone most of the time

• The work moves at a rapid, exciting pace

• The environment and culture gives you opportunities to think through your ideas by talking about them

• The work involves theory and speculation

• The job is action oriented and provides for a wide variety of activities rather than being highly focused on a few tasks

• The work involves creativity, imagination and a creative approach to problem solving

• The work involves looking beyond the present i.e. future possibilities, future products, future actions

• The work is not limited to what exists today but involves "what may be" and "what could be"

• The work allows you to utilize your natural ability to analyze and make objective, logical decisions

• The work allows you to utilize your natural ability to provide others with direction and supervision

• The environment is more structured and disciplined, being on time and following procedure is considered important