Two people who acknowledge each other's strategic skill. Talk of work is pleasant. But both are leaders, and neither yields.
ENFJ × ENTJ is the Business relation, one of the sixteen. Few words, and still it moves forward.
Written as ENTJ × ENFJ it is the same pair. In 16Personalities terms, the Protagonist and the Commander.
On the side of practical logic the first contact is pleasant. You read ahead with the same tool and both like adventure. You acknowledge each other's strategic skill and mesh in concrete work.
In terms of the mechanism, the two share the second position, "intuition that reads the flow". The tool is the same, so talk of work is fast. But the first position differs. ENFJ's "emotion that moves the room" is ENTJ's third position, something they can produce if asked but do not lead with, and ENTJ's "practical logic" sits in the same place for ENFJ. Each measures the other's strength by their own "I could if I had to". So respect and wariness appear at the same time.
ENFJ is systematic, teaches, has principles, and is strict. ENTJ is creative, enthusiastic, entrepreneurial, and reckless.
Both are leaders, both want control, and neither yields.
ENFJ refuses subordination; ENTJ gladly uses those who help. They fight over strategy and control of resources; ENFJ wants a line of rank, ENTJ ignores it. ENFJ criticises the shallowness of ENTJ's information, and ENTJ's way of taking risks collides with ENFJ's caution.
The empty places coincide. "Sensing that arranges comfort" is the most painful place for both, and neither can supply it for the other. What each wants most differs. ENFJ is waiting for "logic that builds order"; ENTJ for "ethics of distance between people"; and the other has neither in first position. The work runs; the warmth of daily life comes from no one. That is the shape of the business relation.
Care of the body is absent in both. In hardship neither protects the other's health, and each resents being abandoned.
The observation says there is a structure in which ENTJ accumulates resources and ENFJ loses them, and ENFJ feels "cheated, betrayed and expelled from the system". The conditions for lasting: children, outside threats, and separate roles.
They understand strategy. Enthusiastic.
Reckless. Their information is shallow.
They use the people who help them.
Systematic, with principles.
They do not comply.
They expose you in public.
An ENFJ wife publicly berated her ENTJ husband's decision to move, in the street; he turned pale, said nothing and turned away. She did not trust his impulses; he endured her emotional pressure, the record says.
An ENTJ mother-in-law was exhausted by housework while the ENFJ daughter-in-law kept reading, having been "invited to rest". One expected help, the other took it as a trap, the record says.
An ENFJ girl in charge of cleaning; an ENTJ girl polished only her own section perfectly and tried to leave; the group held her back. The ENFJ reorganised the ranks and the group wrote a protest sign, the observation says.
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A relation that moves forward with few words, so tools for work.
This pair is the business relation, one of the sixteen. How the relation itself arises, and how to tell it from the others, is on the relation page.
ENFJ on the left, ENTJ on the right. Each shows where the eight elements sit; lines connect the same element. Where each line starts and ends decides what happens in this relation.
Lines connect the same element in the other person's structure. 1–2 (strong) 3 (role) 4 (vulnerable) 5–6 (wanted) 7–8 (capable, indifferent)
This page is also available in Japanese: ENFJ と ENTJ の相性. Русская версия: ENFJ × ENTJ.
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