I spent today hoping that crazy "Snow Hole" that settled itself over Washington, DC during the last snow storm would be back. Or, in the alternative, that it would be cold enough to just plain snow instead of sleeting and icing. Sure, I love to sit inside at my desk and watch the big snowflakes float around. What I don't love, is trying to get from here to there and back again in the middle of it all. As I look outside, I see a layer of white that makes me think the "Snow Hole" missed us. If you are local, or in the path of the snow, drive safe. Better yet, stay inside where it is nice and warm.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is based on the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung. Jung observed that people have inborn preferences for gathering information and making decisions and that these preferences guide an individual’s behavior. The mother/daughter team of Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers expanded on Jung’s theories and created an assessment to make the combined work accessible to all individuals. Today, the assessment is used by most Fortune 100 companies and over two million people worldwide, annually. The assessment identifies an individual’s inborn preferences on four dichotomous scales: where you focus your energy, how you prefer to take in information, how you make decisions, and how you deal with the outer world. Type is best used to understand other people, improve communication, and develop individual skills. The first dichotomy is Extraversion (gets energy from other people) and Introversion (gets energy from reflection). The second is
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