Fieldmarshal (Role Variant)
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Fieldmarshal Rational is one of the 16 role variants the Keirsey Temperament Sorter is based on. David Keirsey originally described the Fieldmarshal role variant; however, the very brief personality descriptions of Isabel Myers greatly contributed to its development. Fieldmarshals correlate primarily with the ENTJ Myers-Briggs type and secondarily with the INTJ Myers-Briggs type.
[edit] Overview
Fieldmarshals are extroverted, pragmatic, direct, and expressive individuals. They are highly skilled in situational organizing and directing their own actions and the actions of others. Their ability to do contingency planning is a close second to their ability to coordinate, decide, and execute a strategy. Born engineers, they desire to break an idea or concept down into it's most fundamental parts, subject those parts to intense scrutiny, and reassemble the idea before giving it their final approval. Their desire to ensure their own assessments are valid extends onto themselves as well; they will often seek the opinion of another trusted individual such as the Architect or an Inventor to refine their "take" on an issue, regardless of how sure they are.
Fieldmarshals have a strong desire to give structure and direction to groups of people. Of all the role variants, Fieldmarshals are the most likely to see where an organization is going and they have the desire to communicate that vision to others. Thus they are more directive in their social exchanges than they are informative. Fieldmarshals often rise to positions of responsibility in work as they are devoted to their jobs and are excellent administrators. Fieldmarshals do not actively seek out leadership responsibilities, but will often volunteer themselves to take charge in situations where leadership is absent or has failed, or where a "power vacuum" suddenly exists; not due to selfishness, but due to their innate desire to see a given system (be it social, political, workplace, or otherwise) continue to function until a suitable leader can be identified, who, in the mind of the Fieldmarshal, is as good at leadership as they are at background administration.
Fieldmarshals search more for goals and policy than they do for procedures and regulations. They strive to make their organization more efficient by reducing red tape, task redundancy and confusion in the work place. Fieldmarshals base their decisions on well thought-out plans, impersonal data, and overall probability of success. They expect others to follow their vision and they are willing to remove stumbling blocks which prevent a given system from being fully productive, human or otherwise. For Fieldmarshals, there must be a goal-directed reason for executing any plan. People’s emotions are generally given the back seat to raw data in any decision making process
Fieldmarshals are impatient with the repetition of error, ineffectiveness and inefficiency. If an established procedure can be demonstrated to be ineffective at accomplishing a certain goal, they will abandon the procedure. Fieldmarshals keep long-term and short-term objectives in mind while striving to turn their organizations into smooth-functioning, empirically stable systems.
Fieldmarshals make up only 2% of the population.
[edit] Distinguished fieldmarshals
The following individuals are identified as Fieldmarshals,
- Bill Gates
- George C. Marshall
- George Bernard Shaw
- Margaret Thatcher
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Carl Sagan
- Edward Teller
- Golda Meir
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