Jenny’s Personality Test: “Commander” ENTJ

I consider myself as a growth-orientated individual. Everyday I dedicate 2–3 hours in self-education through book-reading, news-exploring, talking to inspiring individuals, and mind-meditating. I heard about 16 types of personalities before, but I didn’t take it as there were too many similar personality tests. Yesterday Leyla Makhmudova shared me this test: www.16personalities.com and encouraged me to take this free test on personality. Leyla Makhumudova is a young enthusiastic educator. With her husband, they founded HasLey School teaching people English language in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She told me that she wanted to continue her Master’s degree in Psychology. Through the approach of Psychology to help people’s learning skills. Finally, I’m convinced with her advice.

It took me 13 minutes to fulfill this test, and I’m surprised to find my personality result as a “Commender” ENTJ (details below):

ENTJ Personality ("The Commander") | 16Personalities

Well, at first glance, “Commender” looked quite bossy and arrogant. I consider myself as people-friendly, and how comes? However, reading further in details, this helped me better explore myself in terms of thinking style, working style, romantic relationship, friendship, and career planning. Those famous people who shared/share the same personality are such as: Steve Jobs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher, Whoopi Goldberg and others. I saved a couple of key notes for myself and for friends who want to know me more:

Jenny’s Personality Result

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Commanders are natural-born leaders. People with this personality type embody the gifts of charisma and confidence, and project authority in a way that draws crowds together behind a common goal. However, Commanders are also characterized by an often ruthless level of rationality, using their drive, determination and sharp minds to achieve whatever end they’ve set for themselves.

Happiness Lies in the Joy of Achievement: If there’s anything Commanders love, it’s a good challenge, big or small, and they firmly believe that given enough time and resources, they can achieve any goal. This quality makes people with the Commander personality type brilliant entrepreneurs, and their ability to think strategically and hold a long-term focus while executing each step of their plans with determination and precision makes them powerful business leaders.

If there’s anyone Commanders respect, it’s someone who is able to stand up to them intellectually, who is able to act with a precision and quality equal to their own. Commander personalities have a particular skill in recognizing the talents of others, and this helps in both their team-building efforts (since no one, no matter how brilliant, can do everything alone), and to keep Commanders from displaying too much arrogance and condescension. However, they also have a particular skill in calling out others’ failures with a chilling degree of insensitivity, and this is where Commanders really start to run into trouble…Especially in a professional environment, Commanders will simply crush the sensitivities of those they view as inefficient, incompetent or lazy. To people with the Commander personality type, emotional displays are displays of weakness, and it’s easy to make enemies with this approach — Commanders will do well to remember that they absolutely depend on having a functioning team, not just to achieve their goals, but for their validation and feedback as well, something Commanders are, curiously, very sensitive to.

(Jenny comments: in terms of “insensitivity” of calling out others’ failures and mistakes, I always carry critical thinking toward the work people do, but not people. However, not all people take my critiques constructively, and they takes them personally. That’s the trouble. I do like a “result-orientated” functioning team. I am ready to scarify the personal relationship with individuals, if they do not function well and do not share the same vision with the team by working with results. I have a clear division of my professional and personal relationships).

Commander Strengths

• Efficient — Commanders see inefficiency not just as a problem in its own right, but as something that pulls time and energy away from all their future goals, an elaborate sabotage consisting of irrationality and laziness. People with the Commander personality type will root out such behavior wherever they go.
• Energetic — Rather than finding this process taxing Commanders are energized by it, genuinely enjoying leading their teams forward as they implement their plans and goals.
• Self-Confident — Commanders couldn’t do this if they were plagued by self-doubt — they trust their abilities, make known their opinions, and believe in their capacities as leaders.
• Strong-Willed — Nor do they give up when the going gets tough — Commander personalities strive to achieve their goals, but really nothing is quite as satisfying to them as rising to the challenge of each obstacle in their run to the finish line.
• Strategic Thinkers — Commanders exemplify the difference between moment-to-moment crisis management and navigating the challenges and steps of a bigger plan, and are known for examining every angle of a problem and not just resolving momentary issues, but moving the whole project forward with their solutions.
• Charismatic and Inspiring — These qualities combine to create individuals who are able to inspire and invigorate others, who people actually want to be their leaders, and this in turn helps Commanders to accomplish their often ambitious goals that could never be finished alone.

Commander Weaknesses

• Stubborn and Dominant — Sometimes all this confidence and willpower can go too far, and Commanders are all too capable of digging in their heels, trying to win every single debate and pushing their vision, and theirs alone.
• Intolerant — “It’s my way or the highway” — People with the Commander personality type are notoriously unsupportive of any idea that distracts from their primary goals, and even more so of ideas based on emotional considerations. Commanders won’t hesitate a second to make that fact clear to those around them.
• Impatient — Some people need more time to think than others, an intolerable delay to quick-thinking Commanders. They may misinterpret contemplation as stupidity or disinterest in their haste, a terrible mistake for a leader to make.
• Arrogant — Commander personalities respect quick thoughts and firm convictions, their own qualities, and look down on those who don’t match up. This relationship is a challenge for most other personality types who are perhaps not timid in their own right, but will seem so beside overbearing Commanders.
• Poor Handling of Emotions — All this bluster, alongside the assumed supremacy of rationalism, makes Commanders distant from their own emotional expression and sometimes downright scornful of others’. People with this personality type often trample others’ feelings, inadvertently hurting their partners and friends, especially in emotionally charged situations.
• Cold and Ruthless — Their obsession with efficiency and unwavering belief in the merits of rationalism, especially professionally, makes Commanders incredibly insensitive in pursuing their goals, dismissing personal circumstances, sensitivities, and preferences as irrational and irrelevant.

COMMANDER CAREERS

It is in the world of careers that Commanders’ boldness and drive are truly at their best. No other personality type is better suited than Commanders to be the respected leader of an organization or team, and no other personality type enjoys it quite so much. Combining their vision, intelligence and determination to push ideas through to completion no matter the obstacles, Commanders are a force to be reckoned with.

Naturally the best careers for people with the Commander personality type make the fullest use of these qualities, and many would describe executive positions and entrepreneurialism to be ideal lines of work — any position high enough that they can clearly see the horizon.

For Commanders, failure is not an option — they conceive a vision of the future, formulate a strategy to achieve that vision, and execute each step with ruthless precision.

Commander personalities pursue their goals with singular vision, and have strict standards for themselves and others that are designed above all else to be effective. This makes Commanders excellent corporate strategists, and their objectivity and clarity of thought make them respected lawyers and judges…Commanders also have a thirst for knowledge, and they aren’t afraid to use a principle once they’ve grasped its underlying mechanisms. Combining this with their leadership makes Commanders trying, but effective, university professors… The only problem is, it takes time for Commanders’ skills to be recognized, and stagnating as low-level employees will have them bouncing off the walls and deeply unhappy. People with the Commander personality type crave leadership and responsibility, growth and opportunity, and genuinely enjoy managing others to get a job done. Commanders are visionaries and leaders, not grunts or day-to-day administrators.

Among colleagues, Commanders are sociable and greatly enjoy sharing ideas and critiques in their frequent brainstorming sessions. Natural leaders that they are, Commanders tend to assert themselves into positions as representatives and project leads, considering their objectivity and charisma the perfect qualities for these roles. Commander personalities enjoy working with equals, but people must demonstrate that they are equals — anyone Commanders view as being less competent or driven will see only condescension and arrogance. Commanders are strong-willed, even dominant, and though they enjoy inspiring and tutoring others, the energy they bring to the process can seem overbearing.

Commander managers are confident, charismatic communicators, and they communicate but one vision: to get the job done as efficiently as possible, and to the highest standard of quality.Commanders are natural leaders, and their ability to formulate a strategy and to identify the strengths of each member of their teams, incorporating those abilities into their plans so that each individual fills a unique and important role, makes them able motivators.