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Is Wael Ghonim the Right Leader for Revolution 2.0?
Senior leaders of the U.S. military are all familiar with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ("MBTI"), a personality profile test, which helps define how to organize around a project or mission. I had the privilege of attending several senior level military schools thanks to my service in the U.S. Marine Corps, so I had occasion to take the test and learn its functions many times.
In order to understand the significance of the MBTI to Revolution 2.0, one must first understand its basic context. Upon completion of the test, the subject is placed in one of 16 personality profiles. This is accomplished based on placing their answers on four scales, and an individual can fall anywhere along these scales, including in the middle.
The final result gives the subject a four-letter result, which basically defines their preferred personality approach to life, leadership, marriage, children, and many other topics. This does not mean that they always fall into this personality style all of the time, as I will explain in a moment. There is no correct answer, and successful people come from all personality types. My shorthand for explaining the four scales is as follows:
Extrovert (E) - Introvert (I): An extrovert goes to a party and wants to yuck it up with everyone. She is often the center of attention and loves it. An introvert finds a close friend at the party, and goes over in the corner for a long meaningful discussion.
Sensing (S) - Intuitive (N): A sensing person sees 1,000 trees, but doesn't believe there's a forest. An intuitive person sees 3 trees and assumes there's a forest. Intuitive people tend to be global thinkers, while sensing people are often distracted by details.
Thinking (T) - Feeling (F): This is the classic dichotomy between men and women, though in recent years men and women fall about equally on both sides of the scale. It is the classic scale between head and heart; and between logic and emotion. A thinking person will make decisions based on logic, while a feeling person will decide based on emotion.
Judging (J) - Perceiving (P): Judging people go to the super market with a list, and take items from the shelves only from that list. Perceiving people go with no list, and simply take things from the shelves as they wander up and down the aisles. Both types eat.
Most senior military leaders are either E or I, but they otherwise fall into the STJ categories. This makes them effective at carrying out orders, but less clear about their importance or impact on society. I do not fall into the STJ group, but I was usually able to put on the STJ attitude and bearing with my uniform during my years in the U.S. Marine Corps. This is what I meant by the idea that you do not always need to behave according to your predominant personality style. I believe the most senior military leaders, like Colin Powell and George Marshall, are "N", and that they fall in the middle on the "J"-"P" scale.
Senior officers are taught Myers-Briggs team building for solving problems and planning missions. They are taught to include an "S", who will gather all of the facts. Include an "N" to tell you what the facts mean in a global sense. A "T" must then be engaged to logically consider what to do about the meaning of the facts. An "F" then inputs what the result on society will be if the command follows the logical conclusions of the "T". The other 4 categories are of less significance to this team building process.
For the last 25 years I've had the habit of evaluating people based on my rough estimate of where I think they fall on this MBTI scale. In the case of Revolution 2.0, I was thinking about Wael Ghonim, who CNN, MSNBC and others anointed as the leader in Egypt, whether that was truly the case or not. My guess is that Mr. Ghonim is an ENTP on the Myers-Briggs scale. But, considering his reticence since his sudden burst of fame, he might be an INTP. These two categories represent approximately 1% of the population of all MBTI test takers globally.
If he is an ENTP his is a natural "visionary," which seems evident from what we see of him. You can find a "Portrait of an ENTP" through any search engine, and make your own judgment after reading the discussion you will find there.
My conclusion is based on the following facts: I rated him "E" because he was comfortable grabbing the megaphone after being released from Mubarak's prison. I believe he is "N" because he knew the potential of Facebook, if he could attract people to a focus point and get them to read what was being said there. He is a "T" because he has very systematically worked out and executed the plan he and others devised. And he is "P" because he has accepted the idea that he should step back into the shadows, and not dominate the news media, at least for the time being. A "J" would have grabbed the megaphone and not given it up voluntarily.
All of this is a long way of saying that, in my opinion, Wael Ghonim is certainly destined for greater things in the new Egypt and the development of a better Arab world. As a "visionary," he knows that what happens just now, when all of the balls are up in the air, makes very little difference for the long-term results. What is important is for him to guide his vision, and if you look at Twitter: @Ghonim you will see that this is exactly what he is doing.
The Washington Post published, "Sustaining a Leaderless Revolt in Egypt" in its March 24, 2011 edition. Author William Wan pointed out that now that the primary objective of Mubarak's ouster has been achieved, there are hundreds or thousands of interest groups with all sorts of different agendas that are squabbling over what comes next.
Is this a correct analysis? Obviously the chaos is there, and will be apparent for some time, especially if our conflict hungry news media have anything to say about it. But, I believe that the leadership is there. It is just not in the usual places, so most of the media has not yet found it.
My betting is on Wael Ghonim emerging from the chaos as one of the major acclaimed leaders of Revolution 2.0 in the long-term. My knowledge of the MBTI tells me so.
About the Author
Skip Conover is an International Executive, Author, and Artist. Learn how Psychologist Carl Jung taught politicians, artists and marketers to sell their story at
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