Individual Development, EQ, Jung, Pearman Personality Integrator

As an invited speaker with a group of business leaders, I was sharing our (www.TeamTelligent.com) perspective on talent management.  As expected with tough audiences, one of the business leaders asked, “In two words, what do you do?”  The two words that popped out of my mouth were: “Learning Engineering.” Engineers design, plan, and build according to specific standards and calculations; it struck me that the term was just right.  We are engineering learning for individuals and organizations to enable them to achieve their goals and purpose.  By helping organizations provide a way to profile leaders, managers, and individual contributors essential to perform, we help individuals at all of those levels understand what is required for a given organization.  By facilitating individual learning paths through a career, we are engineering learning to leverage individual talents and to build capability for their career futures. Then one of the business leaders said, “I will not limit

Mindset is a disposition, an inclination, mentality, an ethos, or a point of view.  It is a useful term in that it allows for flexibility, variability, and stability in perspective.  The term gets used to say someone has a social, fear, business, dreamer, or growth “mindset.”  The term is intended to communicate a kind of “gestalt” in the way an individual approaches life.  Popular at the moment is the notion that a growth mindset is a perspective that we can learn and grow, that intelligence is malleable, and that openness to experience invites experiences that help us extend beyond our basic talents.  Feedback —in all its forms —is vital to a growth mindset. [1] The absence of a growth mindset is a fixed mindset (which may serve various purposes as well) which has the main downside of leading to what I call, “hardening of the categories.” Carl Jung could have helped us tremendously if he had titled his initial work Psychological Mindsets rather than Psychological Types.  If you

Carl Jung created a remarkable library of books, letters, and lectures.  If you have read any of his work and feel he is sometimes simply "too far out there," you are not alone.  During his life he had the luxury of time for reading the great books, engaging in massive letter writing, seeing clients or working in a clinical setting, and seemingly able to travel, write, and present endlessly.  He was nothing less than an acute observer of culture, history as manifest in literature, and master of synthesizing information both current and from the past which led him to propose inventive ways of thinking about the human experience. I think many readers of Jung miss the mark when they forget the intellectual culture in which his work was embedded and his simple proposition that he was sharing his journey .  His writings are not particularly straightforward--complicated as well by being translated into English.  His ideas are often esoteric. It is easy to see why his family preve