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types. With their unusual foresight and their ability to devise strategies to reach their goals, INTJs
are visionaries with a plan.
Note that INTJs will remain content followers so long as the leader is the doing a good job (Keirsey,
1998). But if the leader is a bungler, the INTJ cannot help but try to wrench the wheel from the
hands of the incompetent and set the ship back on its proper course.
In fiction as in real life, one will often find an INTJ in charge of a small group. This group may
have any purpose, but the INTJ at the helm shares the same confidence, the same probing mind, the
same willpower, the same self-discipline, the same calmness, and the same ability to devise
startlingly complex, elegant plans that actually work.
INTJs may run into trouble when they decide to ignore the "pointless" social niceties that could in
fact secure cooperation from those who could help them; when they treat less intelligent or skilled
subordinates with open disdain; when they fail to give praise and appreciation for a job well done;
when they do not give detailed instructions to the types that prefer clear specifics to high level
directives ("Keirsey.com," 2009); or when they give orders "out of the blue" without bothering to
secure the support of those who are expected to carry them out. All these things will create
unnecessary obstacles in their path and may indeed result in the failure of their enterprise.
Fortunately, most INTJs realize that concessions to others' needs pay off with tangible benefits.
Being pragmatic realists, they will indulge those under them with a measure of social consideration.
Let's look at some case studies of INTJ leadership.