Yup, I agree with what's been said. I started a whole new division at my company within the last 2 years that's now nearly as big as a division that's been there for over 10 years. My boss & I talked and he took me out of the direct management of it because he wants me to keep doing things like starting new divisions etc. At least I think. Because he's a P, and us zany Ps like to change our direction now & then.
Seriously though, we have a whole 'lotta P action going on at the very top of our management team, and it is indeed a wacky world to operate in. Trying to get a decision made? It's like that old say, "Management is like a bar of soap, the harder you grasp it the more quickly it slips through your fingers.
I have seen the link posted on here somewhere about the tertiary temptation. It's really great material, and speaks to my INFP-ness more than anything I've read actually thus far. The suggestion for avoiding the tertiary temptation is the definition of how to succeed as an NP leader. I just can't remember what it is exactly. (I'll look it up later, too late at night now... Zzzz...)
For me, I get ideas about possibilities so quickly that I analyze them inside my head before I verbalize them, then I analyze them while I verbalize them (I can't finish a sentence without saying, "Oh but then we have to take this over here into consideration and if we actually do that it's another 6 weeks but we'll get added functionality ahead of our top 3 competitors, but actually we could do that and then move on from there.") and then I analyze them while other people are probably trying to communicate back at me (I see their lips moving but I hear my internal analysis
) and then I continue to analyze possibilities after they're done responding and I've already judged the situation into a new set of possibilities that may match or negate what was previously discussed 5 seconds ago in this process.
Due to this constant flow of possibilities, I do find it difficult to not do everything myself. When parts of the process flow are outsourced, I can't link up to possibilities. I would say possibilities are my greatest strength; the routine bores me to death and technically those things in the world that are routine are either 1. getting outsources overseas or 2. getting computerized so that work is basically going away as a valued entity. A computer is not so good at finding "possibilities," at least not "good" ones. (This is related to pattern recognition if I'm not mistaken.) My biggest crusade in the office is getting everyone from line staff to management to explore possibilities rather than taking a clock-puncher attitude toward work each day.
I think my boss is an ESFP (he's an extroverted, sensing, feeling, perceiver - don't pay attention to me though I can't type people as I don't believe in having BOTH a 4-letter system AND functions - c'mon people CHOOSE ONE OR THE OTHER FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
Or, I'll replace functions with "rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock."
) Ok, so I'll be Ne'ing him and he'll sit there and give me this eyes glazed-over look when I start negating my negation of a negation... in a single sentence.
I find the toughest part of Ne and leadership is communication. Probably not helped by my Fi at all..
