Institutional Knowledge

We’ve all taken the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. Answer a series of questions and you arrive at a 4-letter description of yourself based on four dichotomies: attitudes, functions, and lifestyle. For example, back in my freshman year in college, I was an INTP or Introversion-Intuition-Thinking-Perceiving.

Based on Rand’s Managing Human book, I’m proposing the idea of a Rands Personality Test based on the following dichotomies of management styles.

Dichotomies
Inward	Holistic
Incrementalist	Completionist
Mechanic*	Organic*
Or combinations of the two: Organic/mechanic and Mechanic/organic

From these dichotomies, at this point in my career I would consider myself to be a self-described ICOm or Inward-Completionist-Organic/mechanic.

For those of you who have read Managing Humans, what’s your Rand’s Personality Type?

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