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Mayers Briggs Personalities & PM

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Adnan Shareef EPMO Director| JEDCO (Jeddah Airports Company) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Good day

I believe most of you are aware of the Mayers Briggs personality test.
The test categorizes personalities into 16 segments.

from your point of view,
which personalities fit a Project Manager ?
& which don't ?
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
I believe that there is no "personalities" that fit a project manager. I know of project managers that are in various places on the four Myers-Briggs dimensions.

As we mature, we all tend towards the middle of each dimension. For example, the last time I took the test I was showing as slightly extrovert, where I had previously been an introvert.

This "middle of the road" is probably where any leader wants to be.
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1 reply by Adnan Shareef
Oct 05, 2017 1:58 AM
Adnan Shareef
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I agree with you.

But to reach the middle of the road in each dimension will almost take a life time.
So I suppose that some of the 16 personalities can be good PMs according to their personality traits.

I hope that my point is clear
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Adnan Shareef EPMO Director| JEDCO (Jeddah Airports Company) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Oct 04, 2017 8:56 AM
Replying to Stéphane Parent
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I believe that there is no "personalities" that fit a project manager. I know of project managers that are in various places on the four Myers-Briggs dimensions.

As we mature, we all tend towards the middle of each dimension. For example, the last time I took the test I was showing as slightly extrovert, where I had previously been an introvert.

This "middle of the road" is probably where any leader wants to be.
I agree with you.

But to reach the middle of the road in each dimension will almost take a life time.
So I suppose that some of the 16 personalities can be good PMs according to their personality traits.

I hope that my point is clear
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
The test was created based on Jung work. As you know Jung was closely to "spiritual" side than Freud. It is a good guide but it is not more than that. And a project manager could fit into any or the personalities. Personality is made and modified for several factors and environment is the key once. In my case, I never used this type of things as a guide. No matter is a Hugh movement behind to use this type of things tying to explain the soft component of project management and people making money with that. Unfortunately. But I am open to anything that could help me to understand my stakeholders with a tendency to use what is scientifically "proved" like Newton Laws of Movement for example to explain people reactions.
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1 reply by Adnan Shareef
Oct 08, 2017 3:23 AM
Adnan Shareef
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I think I've got the idea.

Thank you for the feedback.
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Adnan Shareef EPMO Director| JEDCO (Jeddah Airports Company) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Oct 05, 2017 5:06 AM
Replying to Sergio Luis Conte
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The test was created based on Jung work. As you know Jung was closely to "spiritual" side than Freud. It is a good guide but it is not more than that. And a project manager could fit into any or the personalities. Personality is made and modified for several factors and environment is the key once. In my case, I never used this type of things as a guide. No matter is a Hugh movement behind to use this type of things tying to explain the soft component of project management and people making money with that. Unfortunately. But I am open to anything that could help me to understand my stakeholders with a tendency to use what is scientifically "proved" like Newton Laws of Movement for example to explain people reactions.
I think I've got the idea.

Thank you for the feedback.
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Elizabeth Harrin Director| RebelsGuideToPM.com London, England, United Kingdom
There was some research done into this. You can read it in the International PM Journal (it's this edition: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pmj.21338/abstract) I hadn't realised it was so old - there's a copy on my desk with the article circled to read. Guess it has been there a looong time.
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Adnan Shareef EPMO Director| JEDCO (Jeddah Airports Company) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Unfortunately, I couldn't open the article :(

It says that the Page isn't found.
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1 reply by Stéphane Parent
Oct 09, 2017 7:18 AM
Stéphane Parent
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Same here.
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
Oct 09, 2017 4:31 AM
Replying to Adnan Shareef
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Unfortunately, I couldn't open the article :(

It says that the Page isn't found.
Same here.
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Andrey Grubin PMP, PMI-ACP Brooklyn, Ny, United States
Sadly the URL is not working :(
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Elizabeth Harrin Director| RebelsGuideToPM.com London, England, United Kingdom
The final bracket got caught in the URL. Try this: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pmj.21338/abstract
Or just remove the ) from the link above.
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Adnan Shareef EPMO Director| JEDCO (Jeddah Airports Company) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Thank you very much Elizabeth.

The article was straight to the point.

I found a direct link to it: Page 78

https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/...j/2013-june.pdf

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