Good thought. However compare the two software leaders Ray Kurzweil (ENTJ) and Bill Gates. Kurzweil was a driver and extremely accomplished from when he was a child. Even with all his accomplishments in his later years (recently) he goes on about himself, pumping up his image (keeps mentioning what a pioneer he was) even though he's gotten plenty of fame and fortune. ESTJ's and ENTJ's suffer from an over-concern for personal power.
Well, ENTJs aren't really all that interested in pumping up their image all that much. They get things done, by sheer bullheadedness, and by arguing for practical common sense that just so happens to support their objectives.
I looked up Kurzweil's bio when you started a thread on him. He had made a lot of companies with the aim to produce a singular type of device, then sold the company on, again and again. As you pointed out, an ENTJ would stay and bring the company to higher and higher heights.
Kurzweil has a very odd habit. All of his gadgets have been different. But they all have had various uses that are all directed towards helping the blind to see. Clearly, there is some kind of singlular and introverted focus to his solutions. Plus, he seems to be very obsessed with his singularity theory. I believe that Kurzweil fits INTJ, or possibly INFJ, at a pinch.
Gates on the other hand is much less the visionary leader, he appears to be much more the problem solver. I see somebody who never got their head out of the code, and by all accounts that was the case.
By all accounts, he kept his head firmly on the business end. He started his own business company in his teens, unlike pretty much almost every other computer nerd I've ever met, even the ones who actually did set up their own business. He was a Congressional Page. He managed to get himself assigned to writing the computer program to allocate students to classes in his school, and programmed them to ensure he'd be in classes with mostly female students, when any INTP would program the computer to put him in the most advanced classes. While in university, he decided to drop out. But unlike almost every other drop-out, he did it to continue his business plans. What's even more amazing, was that he persuaded his parents to be on board with this. He's known to be ruthless in business meeting, always demanding why people aren't doing more to push the business ahead. He's got ENTJ pouring out of him.
Also, it is wise to note that Te-doms are also not visionary leaders. They are objective problem solvers.
One of the lesser-known abilities of the ENTJ, is that when it suits their objectives, they'll happily make themselves seem stupid, if it will further their aims. ENTJs are excellent actors, when they have a reason to pretend to be something.
The public image of what the public are told about Gates, is of a solid INTP. Microsoft has had a lot of bad press due to the numerous lawsuits and monopoly cases brought against them by the US Department of Justice. Having a public image that the head of the company appeared to be a geeky unambitious harmless nerd, definitely had a huge psychological effect to not see Microsoft like other domineering corporations.
AFAIK, though, Paul Allen is rumoured to be an INTP.
Why did he leave Microsoft? An ENTJ would have stayed and led the company to greater heights. Ballmer (probably ESTJ?) is still there.
Well, IIRC, just around when he left, Microsoft was enmeshed in a major justice investigation that they could be a monopoly, which as you know, is not allowed according to American legislation. The upshot of it was that that Microsoft was split into 2 companies. However, what was not immediately obvious, is that Microsoft didn't split into 2 competing companies, like how happened with Ma Bell, but was split into 2 separate divisions, one the applications section, and the other, the major OS section. If you know about the other anti-trust cases, then you know one of the issues was that Microsoft had embedded code into their apps and their OS, so that their apps worked much better on Windows than other companies' apps. The separate divisions work together. So it's a technical non-monopoly, that actually functions as a monopoly. Bit difficult to keep up that illusion, though, when the architect of the monopoly is still in charge. Gates HAD to leave, to keep up the illusion, that the head of Microsoft who was behind the monopoly, was gone.
Those power types can't give up.
True. When major businessmen give up business, they often go into philanthropy instead. However, Gates has taken this to a whole new level. He's set up his own charity, and made it into an international organisation, called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It focusses on the things that Bill wants to promote, such as vaccines, that should be handled by WHO and other such United Nations health organisations. He's also got other extremely rich friends to donate as well. So he's still using his Te-Ni skills, but to promote his own Fi values. Mind you, as one approaches middle age, more and more becomes about one's inferior function.
Another part is demeanor, with Gates I believe we see an extroverted perceiver (the slouching, mussy hair, goofy mien) and introverted judger (Ti-Ne), whereas with Kurzweil we see an external judger introverted perceiver.
He is certainly wearing the clothes. But if you observe, his hair lacks the typical complete mess that is typical of someone who does not care about his appearance. His clothes ar clearly clean. His shirt positively shines. He even looks into the camera. But what gives it away, is that he just can't resist throwing in the completely over-confident business claim that he intends to ensure that Microsoft gets 50% of his business from Apple. He even describes himself as the "Chairman" of Microsoft. He's got the casual look, allright. But it's the casual look of the super-elite, that you see at the Henley Regatta, and such events. But then, his birth name is William H. Gates III, the offspring of a prominent lawyer and a prominent banker. He comes from money, and he dresses like the moneyed do, when they're chilling out. He only omits to say the origin of his dress sense. But it's an act, one that is borrowed from his youthful days growing up with computers in a school for the elite.
Note how he gives weird answers as to if the Mac will be the 3rd industry leader. He does NOT judge the Macintosh. He states objective standards to judge by (leads with objective judgements), and then says that the Macintosh is the only one that fits (supports with subjective perception).
I really question their typing methodology. However, their articles about typing theory are pretty interesting.
I know you haven't done the full blown analysis yet, but..) is awful animated and can barely hold still throughout the entire ordeal. I don't think he's doing it for kinesthetics (Se, inferior or otherwise), but because he's... not aware of his own body. They both seem to look around equally as often, but through different means (eyeballs vs head turning).
