A Company Commander and the First Sergeant find out two of their personnel have been arrested for shoplifting. Discussing the issue, the Commander intends to impose maximum punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The First Sergeant disagrees, mentioning that the one soldier is married and lives off-post with his family, while the other soldier is single and lives in the barracks. He does not believe both soldiers deserve the same punishment. 1 The scenario stated above is a simple example of how personality can affect leadership. Personality is a major factor in the effectiveness, motives, and abilities of a leader. For these reasons, many corporations – including the military – strive to measure the personality of potential
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INTJ personalities are often considered perfectionists, system builders, distant, and hard workers.5 INTJ personalities tend to have several work-related strengths, including independence, overall competence, ability to focus deeply, committed to visions, having high standards, strong analytical decision making skills, and excellent organizational skills.6 Along with these work strengths, comes a set of work-related weaknesses, including driving others too hard, impatient with less competent with others, tendency to not appreciate others enough, and can become closed and distant in communication. 6 Based on the traits attributed to INTJ personalities, one can conclude that they may have more managerial potential than leadership potential due to their difficulty with others. An INTJ may be able to overcome these setbacks by working to improve communication and team skills, along with setting a pursuit worthy vision for the …show more content…
As a whole, my leadership abilities are weak and need to be nurtured and developed. This is justified by a relatively low score for surgency on a Five Factor Model test, where high scores in surgency often indicated stronger leaders. My leadership suffers from acquiescent behaviors and poor team skills; however, I believe that my ability to create an effective vision, organize teams, and work hard. My two foremost key work values involve science and tradition. These leadership strengths and weaknesses correspond with my personality type, which predicts difficulty in working with others and ease in organization and willingness to work hard. On an additional note, many of these abilities correspond with Results Only Managerial skills3 due to desire to obtain results but inability to necessarily build teams. Finally, I believe that my personality denotes two particular Dark Side leadership traits. I have noticed these traits appear when I am melancholy or do not trust those that are working with me. These two traits are being too reserved and diligent. The reserved dark side trait is the manifestation of introversion within my personality; and the diligence dark side trait corresponds to the desire of INTJ personalities to work hard and achieve perfection. It is imperative for me to be wary of these dark side traits in the
INTJ personalities are often considered perfectionists, system builders, distant, and hard workers.5 INTJ personalities tend to have several work-related strengths, including independence, overall competence, ability to focus deeply, committed to visions, having high standards, strong analytical decision making skills, and excellent organizational skills.6 Along with these work strengths, comes a set of work-related weaknesses, including driving others too hard, impatient with less competent with others, tendency to not appreciate others enough, and can become closed and distant in communication. 6 Based on the traits attributed to INTJ personalities, one can conclude that they may have more managerial potential than leadership potential due to their difficulty with others. An INTJ may be able to overcome these setbacks by working to improve communication and team skills, along with setting a pursuit worthy vision for the …show more content…
As a whole, my leadership abilities are weak and need to be nurtured and developed. This is justified by a relatively low score for surgency on a Five Factor Model test, where high scores in surgency often indicated stronger leaders. My leadership suffers from acquiescent behaviors and poor team skills; however, I believe that my ability to create an effective vision, organize teams, and work hard. My two foremost key work values involve science and tradition. These leadership strengths and weaknesses correspond with my personality type, which predicts difficulty in working with others and ease in organization and willingness to work hard. On an additional note, many of these abilities correspond with Results Only Managerial skills3 due to desire to obtain results but inability to necessarily build teams. Finally, I believe that my personality denotes two particular Dark Side leadership traits. I have noticed these traits appear when I am melancholy or do not trust those that are working with me. These two traits are being too reserved and diligent. The reserved dark side trait is the manifestation of introversion within my personality; and the diligence dark side trait corresponds to the desire of INTJ personalities to work hard and achieve perfection. It is imperative for me to be wary of these dark side traits in the