The first is that taking control of a new group is easy. Just start; people will fall into line. I can't remember where I first learned that, but I do from time to time consciously take control of groups to speed up the process.
(Being a tall white male is, um, helpful when pulling this stunt ... YMMV).
The secret to leadership, apparently, is delegation. It helps that I am naturally lazy.
The second thought is: avoid the MBTI. It's not a very good psychometric system. The current best classification approach is the "five factor model".
... and even then it's only weakly predictive and only for certain kinds of behaviour.
The secret to leadership, apparently, is delegation.
I think there's a lot of truth to this. One observation I've made over the years: a number of people I've known who might have made great leaders failed to due to almost overwhelming trust and control issues. Almost to the person I've found that almost all of them came from very troubled childhood homes. Anecdotal, but I wonder if our social inability to address these types of developmental issues short changes us as a society from a great number of potential leaders.
The secret to leadership, apparently, is delegation.
No, the secret to management is delegation. A big part of successful leadership is actually about being on the front lines with your followers and sharing their burden and risk.
The first is that taking control of a new group is easy. Just start; people will fall into line. I can't remember where I first learned that, but I do from time to time consciously take control of groups to speed up the process.
(Being a tall white male is, um, helpful when pulling this stunt ... YMMV).
The secret to leadership, apparently, is delegation. It helps that I am naturally lazy.
The second thought is: avoid the MBTI. It's not a very good psychometric system. The current best classification approach is the "five factor model".
... and even then it's only weakly predictive and only for certain kinds of behaviour.