Personality type
ENTJ: Driven, decisive and built to organise
ENTJs see where things could go and want to get there. They like to take charge, set direction and turn a big idea into a plan that people can follow, and they enjoy a challenge more than comfort.
Strengths
- Turns vision into a plan and a timetable
- Comfortable making tough calls
- Energises a group around a goal
Worth watching
- Can push pace over people
- May steamroll quieter views
- Can find rest hard to justify
With a GoBoyfriend companion
Use Coaching to break a goal into moves, and Devil's Advocate to stress-test a plan before you commit to it.
What each letter means for ENTJ
E
Extraversion: higher
Energised by people and activity.
N
Imagination: higher
Drawn to ideas and possibilities.
T
Agreeableness: lower
Leads with directness and logic.
J
Conscientiousness: higher
Likes plans, order and closure.
Types one letter away
How the letters work
The test uses the 50-item IPIP Big-Five Factor Markers, public-domain questions developed by Lewis R. Goldberg and widely used in personality research. Your answers give a score from 0 to 100 on each of the Big Five traits. The four letters come from four of them, following the links between the Big Five and Jung's types reported by McCrae and Costa (1989).
E or I: Extraversion
E if you score 50 or more: energised by people and activity. I below 50: energised by time alone and quiet.
N or S: Imagination
N if you score 50 or more: drawn to ideas and possibilities. S below 50: drawn to the concrete and proven.
F or T: Agreeableness
F if you score 50 or more: lead with warmth and harmony. T below 50: lead with directness and logic.
J or P: Conscientiousness
J if you score 50 or more: like plans, order and closure. P below 50: like flexibility and keeping options open.
The fifth Big Five trait, emotional stability, is shown separately as steadiness: how calm and even you tend to feel under pressure. It is not part of the four letters.
Your letters compare you to the middle of each scale, not to other people, and a score near 50 is a lean rather than a verdict, so we show how clear each letter is. Personality is a set of tendencies that shift with context and over time, not a box. This is for self-reflection, not a clinical or hiring assessment.
This is not the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and GoBoyfriend is not affiliated with The Myers & Briggs Foundation. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and MBTI are trademarks of their owners.
Think you might be ENTJ?
Take the test in about eight minutes and see how clear each of your letters is.
