By Donna Dunning
Individuals with these personality type preferences have a dominant function of Extraverted Thinking (Te).
Together, people with preferences for ESTJ and ENTJ comprised 10.5% of the national representative sample of personality type preferences collected in the USA by CPP Inc.
Personality Type ESTJ
People with ESTJ preferences comprised 8.7 % of the US national representative sample.
ESTJ males: 11.2 % of the sample of men
ESTJ females: 6.3 % of the sample of women
Personality Type ENTJ
People with ENTJ preferences comprised 1.8 % of the US national representative sample.
ENTJ males: 2.7% of the sample of men
ENTJ females: 0.9 % of the sample of women
Type and Owning a Small Business
In an 1997 study quoted in the MBTI manual, both men and women with ESTJ and ENTJ preferences showed up more often in a sample of small business owners than you would expect from their numbers in the general population.
Having these preferences would likely link to having a task and goal-focused, bottom-line, efficient approach to running a small business.
Of course, any person with any personality type preferences, can successfully own a small business. Everyone will have different strengths and challenges in this endeavor.
Are any readers small business owners? What are your preferences and how do you use your preferences to enhance your business success?
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