Dear Jan,
thanks for a very interesting answer, in which I found many of my own
thoughts on organisational life and life in general mirrored. In my
experience and compared to the theoretical framework that I am using,
C.G.Jung had a too state oriented view of these personality types, that
were later picked up in the Meyers-Briggs test (and in my view
consequently refined and improved in the less well known Singer-Loomis
test). I notice that my own typology is much more blurry, depending on who
I am around, where I am in terms of cultural environment, both general and
corporate, and what is happening in my life as a whole. Seen from that
perspective, if you stick to being mainly one type or configuration, your
problem is so to speak flexibility. I assume, that the same is true when
working with organisations. A given state in an organisation is then more
like a polaroid shot in a moving scene, engaged in change that includes
many aspects, also changing types, which are no longer seen as a
fundamental static characteristic. What do you think?
warmly
max
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