Extraverted, intuitive, thinking, judging. One of the least common of the sixteen types, and the one most likely to end up running something whether or not anybody appointed them.
The Four Letters
Extraverted means you process externally. You'll think by talking, decide in the open, and find a silent room unproductive rather than restful.
Intuitive means you deal in trajectory and system rather than in the detail in front of you. You're looking at where this ends up, and the present arrangement is mostly evidence about the future one.
Thinking means the criterion is whether it works. You will make a decision that costs you popularity if the logic holds, and you find it hard to understand people who won't.
Judging means closed, planned and moving. An unresolved question is a live cost, and you'd rather decide on partial information than wait for perfect information that arrives late.
Together: somebody who forms a picture of the destination quickly, builds the route, assigns the work, and is often three steps ahead of the conversation everyone else is still having.
"Commander," and the A or T
Commander is 16Personalities' nickname, and it is one of the more accurate ones, which is worth conceding.
If your result was ENTJ-A or ENTJ-T, note that this page ranks for that question and it deserves a straight answer: that fifth letter is not part of Myers-Briggs at all. It comes from the same quiz's own scale and reports roughly how much stress you were under, with assertive meaning harder to rattle and turbulent meaning more self-critical. The INFJ page sets out where it came from and why it isn't a sub-type.
Authority Is Not the Same as Force
Here's the passage that goes at this type directly, and Jesus is speaking to men who were arguing about rank.
"You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all" (Mark 10:42-44).
Read what he does and doesn't say. He doesn't tell them to stop wanting to be great. He redirects what greatness consists of. The ambition isn't removed; the method is replaced.
That's the distinction to hold onto, because this type has real authority and will be tempted by force, which is faster. Force gets compliance today and costs you the person's judgment permanently, since people stop telling you things.
The test is whether the people under you bring you bad news early. If they don't, they're managing you, and you'll be the last to know how anything is actually going.
What the Profiles Get Wrong
Two things.
The first is that decisiveness is treated as a personality preference rather than as a service. Most groups cannot close a decision. Somebody has to say "we're doing this, starting Monday," and absorb being wrong occasionally, and that's a load rather than a privilege.
The second is that this type is written up as though the confidence is the whole story. Frequently it isn't. A lot of ENTJs are carrying the certainty because nobody else would, and would quite like somebody to check on them, which nobody does, because they look fine.
What This Type Is Short Of
One thing worth naming, because it rarely gets said to somebody in charge.
This combination is very good at the decision and much weaker at the aftermath. You'll close a matter cleanly, move on that afternoon, and not register that three people are still processing it on Friday. From your side the thing is finished; from theirs it happened to them.
So build in the step you'd never think of: go back to the people a decision landed on and ask how it landed. Not to reopen it. Just to find out. It takes ten minutes and it is the single highest-return habit available to this type.
Where the Four Letters Stop
It can't tell you that you're right this time. Being usually right is exactly what makes the occasional wrong call expensive, since by then nobody is arguing with you.
And it can't excuse the collateral. "I'm direct" describes a preference. It doesn't cover the person who's been avoiding you for a month.
Read Next
If you're working from a description rather than a result, the assessments guide covers where to go.
The applied version is connecting with Jesus as an ENTJ, built on Deborah, who gave the order, went along herself, and told the commander plainly what his choice would cost him. The rest of the ENTJ material is collected together.
One more note, on the thing this type is least likely to arrange for itself. You need at least one person who is not impressed by you and will say so, and you will have to appoint them deliberately, because the ordinary social process does not produce them for somebody in your position. Ask them directly. Tell them what you want the job to be.
Keep the decisiveness, because most rooms are short of it. Then read Mark 10 and check which kind of authority you've been using this month.