MBTI
Based on Carl Jung’s theories and developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs, MBTI helps change agents understand how people prefer to process information, make decisions, and interact with the world. While often used in traditional HR contexts, Lean Change applies MBTI informally—as a lens to appreciate cognitive diversity, not to label people. It’s a tool for designing better conversations, not assigning fixed roles.
MBTI vs traditional thinking
Two different assumptions about how change should work.
Lean Change
Lean Change sees MBTI as a sensemaking lens, not a label. Preferences are fluid, context-dependent, and not predictive—used to spark conversation, not define people.
Traditional Change Management
Traditional change may use MBTI to assign people to roles based on “type” and promote static alignment.
MBTI sorts behavior into 4 dichotomies (preferences), creating 16 personality types.
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