The MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) was developed by an American mother and dauhter team, Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers. It provides a useful measure of personality and indicates 16 types of people on the basis of answers to MBTI questions. The MBTI is well docuemented and researched with hundreds of scientific studies conducted during a forty-year period.

I was privileged to participate in MBTI personality type indicator test twice. In the first instance I took this test as a part of the academic course at the School of Public Affairs American University. Leadership Development Program at the National Leadership Institute (University of Maryland - University College) provided me second opportunity to respond to this personality indicator. Interestingly findings were consistent at each occasion. On the basis of answers to MBTI questions I came out to know that my personality type was ISTJ. (Introvert, Sensing, Thinking, Judging)

ISTJs are thorough, painstaking, systematic, hard-working, and careful with detail.

• Get things done steadily and on schedule.
• Are particularly strong with detail and careful
  in managing it.
• Have things at the right place at the right time.
• Can be counted on to honor commitments and follow through.
• Work well within organizational structure.

• Use experience and knowledge of the facts to make decisions.
• Build on reliable, stable, and consistent performance to take charge.
• Reward those who follow the rules while getting the job done.
• Pay attention to immediate and practical organizational needs.

• Contains hard-working people focused on facts and results.
• Provides security.
• Rewards a steady pace.
• Structured.
• Task-oriented.
• Orderly.
• Allows privacy for uninterrupted work.

1. Sensing
2. Thinking
3. Feeling
4. Intuition