Personality Deficiencies
Still in Milwaukee. My client had its quarterly meeting today, and, because there’s been some perceived dissonances in the organization, we engaged in a sort of truncated Myers-Briggs exercise. This one was REALLY quick & dirty, with 15 questions on a 4-column grid. As it turned out, each column represented one of the quadrants - let’s see, this time they were Driver, Expressive, Amiable and retentive Analytical. I usually turn out way analytical, but this time I was solidly Amiable.
I was puzzled by this for a while. Have I gone soft? I posited that “Amiable” was in fact indicative of an Analytical that had just quit trying. I started to plot ways to get back my Analytical chops, things like sandbagging the Drivers’ decisions with “process”, answering “yes-or-no” questions with 5-page dissertations. I was sure I still had it.
Then I examined the testing sheet again and discovered that the Amiable column was the third, and the Analytical column was the fourth. We were given only 3 minutes to fill the thing out, and I realized that I had just been too fucking lazy to read over to the fourth column for most of the questions. In a way, it confirmed my earlier feeling that I’ve slipped a bit - the true Analytical would read all the responses and ruminate on them until time was up. I want another shot when I’ve had more sleep.
