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This chapter summarizes the author’s Teamology: The Construction and Organization of Effective Teams, and also describes later advances that simplify and clarify the theory. First, it develops the personality theory of psychiatrist C.G. Jung, which theorizes that people solve problems by eight mental processes called “function-attitudes” or “cognitive modes”. Then it discusses how to determine these...
This chapter gives an example applying the quantitative theory to the on-the-spot construction of problem-solving teams from a personnel pool, in this case fourteen sophomores in the author’s 2009 Stanford Seminar on “Teamology”. Their majors were not recorded, but about half seemed to have an inclination toward science or engineering.
Earlier chapters confined themselves to the psyche’s two conscious cognitive mode pairs, comprising what Freud and Jung described as the “ego”. The present chapter will discuss the remaining four modes associated with the unconscious “shadow” as Jung called it.
The preceding chapter showed that quantifiying Jung’s personality theory inevitably leads to two modes in each domain—four in all. Jung himself considered only the principal one in each domain, giving the name “dominant” to the more prominent and “auxiliary” to the other. Quantitative theory identifies a new “subsidiary” mode in each domain, both absent from Jung’s entirely qualitative formulation...
The Myers–Briggs type indicator (MBTI), a famous questionnaire for measuring the variables of psychiatrist C. G. Jung’s well-established personality theory, has been a cornerstone, at times controversial, of what has come to be known as “typology”, a paradigm for studying and understanding human personality. Numbering in the hundreds of millions, its users may be shocked to learn that in 2009 existing...
This chapter shows how to decouple the attitudes, an activity whose procedure or even purpose may not be at all clear to most readers. It is therefore essential to explain here not only what is meant by “coupling” but also why undoing it is well worth the effort.
Dedicated readers who have mastered the decoupling formulas in Chap. 4 may still be wondering why it is worth the effort. The present chapter will show that decoupled attitudes make for simpler expressions when they are combined with the functions to form cognitive modes.
Jung’s personality theory, originally a guide for psychoanalysts seeking patterns in clients’ psyches, has until now been entirely qualitative and free of numbers. Its quantification to come must be based on and be consistent with this qualitative description. This chapter places this informal set of descriptions on an axiomatic foundation so that typological “principles” can be deduced logically...
This chapter is dedicated to the correct, or one might say “corrected”, use of the traditional Type Dynamics (TD) approach to personality typing. It will show, not only how to tell when TD will work, but also what to do when its uncorrected performance is inadequate.
This chapter begins the conversion of Jung’s qualitative concepts into a solid and rigorous quantitative theory useful for applications by teamologists and other 8-function(-attitude) personologists. Although finding the right mode categories is all that the applications need, identifying them even qualitatively will involve computing numerical mode scores from MBTI data. The QUANTitative mode scores...
Jung's Personality Theory Quantified fills an urgent need for professionals using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) to map it on to the cognitive modes of Jung’s personality theory, avoiding potential logical errors in the traditional “type dynamics” method. It furthers Jung’s original concepts while placing them on a solid axiomatic basis not possessed by other personality theories. Bringing...
Teamology: The Construction and Organization of Effective Teams demonstrates how psychiatrist C. G. Jung’s cognition theory, a cornerstone of modern personality typology, may be used to form and organize effective problem-solving teams through a novel quantitative transformation of numbers from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) psychological instrument directly on to Jung’s eight cognitive modes...
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