#work dynamics

The fan art. The social media engagement. The crowds that flock to the cons. They want that.

They just don't want us to have an opinion, or ship anyone. Divorce our engagement from what we are engaged with ...

It’s been fantastic, thanks, we’ve just returned from the holidays and I hope yours were just as great. Sure. On working relationships between ESTPs and ENTJs, thoughts from my experiences below.

ESTP x ENTJ working relationship

Strengths

Bias for action: Both types have a bias for action making them quick to build plans, expand on ideas, seize opportunities, and execute. In the professional world, speed is critical to success so this is a huge competitive advantage.

High tolerance for pain: Both types are gladiators (no matter the enneagram). Take these two and throw them into the most insane, high-stress, high-impact, demanding projects and they can not only survive but succeed. ESTPs will grind it out with the best of them.

Results oriented: Both types are motivated by realizing actions, plans, and strategies into tangible results. They’re not content with intellectual exercises and philosophical discussions that go nowhere. If there are goals, metrics, and targets to hit– they’ll be hit.

Communication styles: Both types have clear no-nonsense communication styles. If there’s something to say– say it– don’t worry too much about the nuances. This minimizes misunderstandings, hurt feelings, and politics. It also saves a ton of time, energy, and effort.

Weaknesses

Insensitivity: Insensitivity is a huge issue for both types especially when it comes to managing relationships, navigating politics, and having to use consensus over brute force to make decisions in environments where that’s the preferred way of doing things. Keep each other in check or find the local xxFJ to help with this.

Impatience: Both types want to realize tangible results as soon as possible, and if not, they have the tendency to push other people (teams, clients, etc) harder. ESTPs are generally more impatient than ENTJs. Be clear about timelines and expectations, remember that results don’t happen overnight and lack of visible movement doesn’t mean total failure

Lack of detail orientation: Both types are weak at detail-orientation and work that requires precision. ENTJs are weaker at detail oriented work than ESTPs. Check your work multiple times especially when dealing with budgets, contracts, and sensitive documents and get multiple reviewers to look at it. Get an ISTP or ISFJ when in doubt, they’re human scalpels. 

Likelihood for conflict isn’t MBTI related, it’s more determined by the individuals but below is where I’ve clashed with ESTPs and advice on how to navigate those conflicts:

Reactive vs. proactive: ESTPs tend to be more reactive, ENTJs tend to be more proactive. Proactive strategy requires long-term planning, foreshadowing possibilities, and preparation. We’re better than ESTPs at this. A strategy to help ESTPs understand the value of proactive planning is simply to map actions now to results and risks later. “We can get $1,000 in 1 week or we can wait 2 weeks and get $5,000. With that additional $4,000, we can buy computer monitors for 40 more employees. The downside is 10 employees will have to wait a week for their monitors which will cost us $500 in project work.” Be very clear about tangible results and trade-offs. If being abstract and theoretical (exploring the “what ifs”), make sure to concretely quantify the probability and impact of those possibilities.

Inconsistency: ESTPs are excellent at delivering in high-pressure situations but once the adrenaline wears off they can get bored and they struggle to sustain the effort. Repetitive tasks can wear them down so a strategy to keep them engaged is to regularly report results even if the actions are repetitive. Doing push-ups every day isn’t exciting but losing 1 lb this week and 3 lbs next week shows tangible results, movement, and variety. Emphasize progress, it’ll inspire consistency.

Author: olivemartini Rating: gen Word Count: 2-5k Genre(s): angst Film-specific: pre-iron man Tropes: pre-relationship, first meeting, work dynamics, developing relationship

Summary: Her first day of working for Mr. Stark, she's expecting it to only last a week, because that's what Mr. Stane had told her.

"Don't take it personally," He had said, sighing like he, at least, was trying to make things work. "He fires everybody."

And that may be true, but Pepper needed this job, and she needed her reputation to stay intact, so she was going to make this job stick, whether this Tony Stark wanted her to stay or not.

At the very least, she was going to last longer than a week.

yung favorite work senior ko, nagpa-Dalgona coffee.

teh, sayang sa oras. nating lahat.

One of my co-workers decided to yell at another co-worker from his desk while she was in her office a few feet away. He was mad about an e-mail she had sent so he started shouting about it so the whole office could hear. He wasn't doing it in an aggressive way, more like a teenage boy. I decided to complain because it was really disruptive and SUPER unprofessional and the guy has been pulling shit like this all week. 

But while I was trying to say simply. "Not sure what is up with (dude's name) but while you were on lunch he was yelling from his desk about an e-mail she sent. I found it very disruptive and mildly upsetting." I started shaking and I'm SURE I turned red and sort of almost started crying. 

A continuation of this post. 

In the previous post, I described Aiba as someone who is neutral towards his goal, but I may have to add that, this condition applies now, when Arashi has finally reach its balance in terms of popularity. That post was also actually a part of interpretation of this interview which Arashi is actually divided into three sides based on their view of "changes" (now that they already reached "top"). They are divided into the ones who still want to change and keep improving/finding new achievements (Sakurai and Matsumoto), the one who wants to stay as it is and maintain status quo (Ohno and Ninomiya), and the one who want to change as long as they still cherish Arashi the most (Aiba).

To put Arashi's work ethics simply, Sho and Jun are the workaholics and perfectionist, they maybe not that talented, but their hard work makes it up what they lack, that's why they tend to work until late, until they think its perfect. On the other side, Ohno and Nino may be talented, but they are pretty hard to get motivated, it's not that they don't like to work hard, but they have their own passions and preferences when it comes to working, that's why they tend to finish working as soon as possible so they can go home early and do whatever they want to do. If Arashi consists of these four people, imagine how tense their working environment would be, and how long would it takes for them to be united as a group.

...but thankfully, there's Aiba, the miracle boy, in his silly, bouncy, happy way, coming next to them, saying, "WORK? WHAT THE HELL IS WORK?! WE'RE NOT WORKING GUYS, WE'RE HAVING FUN!!!XDXDXD", okay that may be a little exaggeration from me, but that's pretty much sum up Aiba's view of work, to enjoy and have fun with it. Ogura Tomoaki (the old guy in Shukudai) has said that working with Aiba is such a pleasure that it doesn't feel like working, and the show can't go on without Aiba, VS Arashi PD said that with Aiba's existence alone it can soften the entire mood on the set (which sometime can be tense because of the game competition). 

Despite his silly and clumsy antics, Aiba makes work seems not that stressful for Sho and Jun, and its enjoyable enough for Ohno and Nino to stay longer. And what's more important is he add the perfect balance to Arashi work dynamics. I mean where else we can find a group that is not only talented, always trying to improve, but also not forget to have fun and be themselves in whatever they do?