Best Practices for ENTJs

Break your time into short bursts and change tasks frequently

Get a watch with a countdown timer built-in, and set it for short bursts. If you're an ENTJ, one big challenge you're likely to face is that you'll find yourself frustrated and annoyed by trivial little details in executing day-to-day work. In trying to avoid them, you may run the risk of getting distracted or trying to procrastinate them away. By focusing all of your tasks (including the nuisance ones) in short blocks, you can command yourself to pay attention and get the reward of checking items off the to-do list in order to move on to the next thing. On the other end of the scale, a timer broken down into short chunks will help keep you from spending so much time on pleasurable big-picture items that you get distracted off into time sinks.

Learn HTML

It's a simple, logical programming language for making websites, so to a rational person the syntax isn't hard to learn. Knowing how to build your own websites keeps you from having to rely on others to do the work and gives you a convenient way to organize information (and people) on the fly.

Get familiar with LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) Draw

These are free programs, and the attractive feature is that they have a very simple set of tools for building flowcharts and diagrams. If you've ever had to explain one of your big-picture projects to other people and found that they had trouble seeing your vision for getting from point "A" to point "B", this program will give you a lot of help in turning it into a visual, logical illustration that gets other people on board.

Write letters

There's a good chance that you really like your friends and have a lot of them. They also probably don't realize how highly you think of them. While you probably don't come across as warm-and-fuzzy, you quite likely have the skills to put into writing just how highly you think of your friends. Do that on occasion. It may be the only time in someone's entire life that they get a personal, thoughtful note recognizing something good about themselves. You'll find that it may be profoundly touching to the people you like and respect most in the world. The ENTJ's weakness for expressing feelings (and general habit of thundering around, dominating whatever social groups they come across) can be balanced very well by using your natural strength with language to put your feelings into words.

What works/worked for famous ENTJs

Bill Gates:
"I'm getting ready for Think Week. In May, I'll go off for a week and read 100 or more papers from Microsoft employees that examine issues related to the company and the future of technology. I've been doing this for over 12 years. It used to be an all-paper process in which I was the only one doing the reading and commenting. Today the whole process is digital and open to the entire company."

"The one low-tech piece of equipment still in my office is my whiteboard. I always have nice color pens, and it's great for brainstorming when I'm with other people, and even sometimes by myself."

"[T]he challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail, it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most. I use tools like "in-box rules" and search folders to mark and group messages based on their content and importance."
Margaret Thatcher:
"While she could sometimes be tough in her own criticism of members of her staff, she would not allow anyone else to do so. Her defence of them from any outside attack is one reason why she inspired such intense loyalty from all who worked with her."

"[S]he could take being told she was wrong (provided you had your facts and dialectic in order)"

"She combined a ferocious appetite for work and the all-important detail of how policies would actually work, with an iron grasp of strategy and long-term aims"