personality driven challenges in the innovation process
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This was a lecture given at the annual seminar of the Lahti Mechatronics Network on December 13th, 2011. The lecture focused on how different personality types can better contribute to specific activities in the innovation process. Do you want to know more: Feel free to contact BOOI Innovations @ www.booi-innovations.comTRANSCRIPT
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Ron Broens+358 (0)50 501 63 29
Lahti Mechantronics NetworkLahti, December 13th, 2011
10:00 – 10:25
Personality typedriven challenges in
the innovation process
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Quick assignment
• Imagine that you are a member of a tribe of early settlers ±5000 years ago.
• Picture your role in that tribe! What would be your daily activities that would support your tribe to exist and flourish?
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Personality Type Indicators
Extrovert -Sensing -
Thinking -Judgement -
Introvert iNtuition Feeling Perception
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ENTJFieldmarshal
ENTPInventor
INTPArchitect
INTJMastermind
Rationals (NT's)±12% ENFJ
Teacher
ENFPChampion
INFPHealer
INFJCounsellor
Idealist (NF's)±14%
ESTPPromoter
ESFPPerformer
ISFPComposer
ISTPCrafter
Artisans (SP's)±33%
ESFJProvider
ESTJSupervisor
ISTJInspector
ISFJProtector
Guardians (SJ's)±41%
Types & Temperaments
Source: http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/population-gender/
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In a creation environment
impulsivedislike routineneed freedomneed realistic goalscan seem unreliable
complex system thinkersenable idea-generationbest when challenged
natural inventorsimpatient
love to explore ideaslead social changesystem thinkerneed harmonyfear conflict
submissivefactual data
fear the unknownresist change / rigid
require sense of order
Idealist (NF's)±14%
Rationals (NT's)±12%
Guardians (SJ's)±41%
Artisans (SP's)±33%
Source: Michelle James, http://creativeemergence.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345599ab69e20147e33bb302970b-pi
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Source: 'So you want to be an ENFJ?' article written by Roy Childs - SDR Oct 04)
'Is' & 'Want' types
Idealist (NF's)±14%
ENFP1.4
ENFJ3.9
INFP0.3
INFJ0.2
Rationals (NT's)±12%
ENTJ3.9
ENTP1.2
INTJ0.7
INTP0.3
ESTJ1.8
ESFJ1.5
ISFJ0.3
ISTJ0.3
Guardians (SJ's)±41%
ESTP0.7
ESFP0.5ISFP
0.1
ISTP0.2
Artisans (SP's)±33%
WANT typeIS type
>70%
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Intelligence & Creativity
• Preference for intelligence
• iNtuitive before Sensing
• Introverted before Extroverted
• Thinking before Feeling
• Judging before Perceiving
• INTJ: Mastermind
• Preference for creativity
• iNtuitive before Sensing
• Perceiving before Judging
• Extroverted before Introverted
• Thinking before Feeling
• ENTP: InventorSources:- Gough, Harrison. Studies of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in a personality assessment research institute. Paper presented at the Fourth National Conference onthe Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Stanford University, CA (July, 1981)- Myers, Isabel Briggs, and Mary H. McCaulley. Manual: A Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Palo Alto, California.Consulting Psychologists Press. 1992- Thorne, Avril and Harrison Gough. Portraits of Type: An MBTI Research Compendium. Palo Alto, California. Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc. 1991
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The threshold hypothesis
Creativity
Inte
llige
nce
INTJINTP
ENTJ
ENTP
Rationals (NT's)±12%
INFJINFP
ENFJ
ENFP
Idealist (NF's)±14%
ISFJ
ESFJ
ISTJ
ESTJ
Guardians (SJ's)±41%
ISFP
ESFP
ISTP
ESTP
Artisans (SP's)±33%
Sourrce: "The threshold hypothesis", proposed by Paul Ellis Torrance. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Paul_Torrance
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Present, Future, and Intrapreneurs
Creativity
Inte
llige
nce
Rainmaker index is created [80/90's] by Greg Stevens, president, WinOvations Inc. and James Burley, professor of marketing and logistics, Central Michigan University
SFacts
Present
PossibilitiesFuture
N
Intrapreneursor rainmakersINTJ
INTP
ENTJ
ENTP
INFJINFP
ENFJ
ENFP
ISFJ
ESFJ
ISTJ
ESTJISFP
ESFP
ISTP
ESTP
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Roles in project management
Creativity
Inte
llige
nce
Sources: http://www.maxwideman.com/papers/profiles/observations.htm + http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/population-gender/
INTJINTP
ENTJ
ENTP
INFJINFP
ENFJ
ENFP
ISFJ
ESFJ
ISTJ
ESTJISFP
ESFP
ISTP
ESTP
Admins (±28%)
Explorers (±7%)
Coordinators (±46%)
Drivers (±19%)
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'Is' & 'Want' types -revisit
Creativity
Inte
llige
nce
ISFJISFP
ESFJ
ISTJ
ESFP
ISTP
INFJ
ESTJ
INFP
ESTP
ENFJ
INTJ
ENFP
INTP
ENTJ
ENTPAdmins (±28%)
Explorers (±7%)
Coordinators (±46%)
Drivers (±19%)
Source: http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/population-gender/
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Now...
• ±74% will most likely not be intrapreneurs • Personality types favour routines / patterns
• >70% value other personality trades more• Preference for Extrovert & iNtuitive trades• Dislike of Artisan (SP's) trades & Introversion
• So what now?• What does that mean for the innovation process?
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Enable more engagement
• Create awareness for personality types• Increase creative competencies• Innovate in a systematic manner• Provide freedom to generate & develop input• Assign tasks that come natural• Reward in-line with social needs
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Thank you
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Ron Broens+358 (0)50 501 63 29