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Re:Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types by trhway on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @08:35PM (#32759421)
>As a manager, I've found them incredibly helpful for avoiding problems (i.e., assigning the wrong task to a person).

it sounds like you're assigning tasks based on prejudicial categorization of genetic traits (as MTBI claims to be) instead of actual demonstrated job performance.

Re:Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types by biomcgary on Thursday September 08, 2022 @01:32PM (#32768820)
Some problems are very detail oriented, others are much more vaguely defined. As a manager, I assigned vague problems to one person because they weren't worried about the lack of structure to the problem. The devil-in-the-details problems I assigned to another person. Both people were happier and clearly more productive. Could I have made the same decisions without an explicit personality framework in my mental toolkit? Yes, but it would probably have required more experience than I had.
Re:Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types by Aeolun on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:55PM (#32760057)
I like to think that it means he doesn’t assign me tasks that require me to be in meetings 6 hours of every day.