Australian Psychological Type Review 11:2 (October 2009)

Australian Psychological Type Review Published by the Australian Association for ISSN 1442-0716 Psychological Type Inc, www.ausapt.org.au Edited and designed by Philip L Kerr (INTP) Volume 11 Printed by Webbs Printing, Fortitude Valley QLD Number 2 [email protected] October 2009 About us Now for something completely different The Australian Psychological Type Review is the Ian L Ball + Huifang Yang + Shuming Zhao national periodical of the Australian Association New evidence about the four temperaments and Chinese and Australian managers .................. for Psychological Type Inc. 3 The Review is published twice a year, in April and Sally Campbell | Culture changes over time October, and distributed to AusAPT members, Effects on cultures across the world .......................................................................................... 11 international type bodies and selected libraries. Correspondence may be emailed to the Editor Peter Geyer + Philip L Kerr | Views from the Grassy Knoll … at [email protected], or posted to Two perspectives on the Dallas APTi conference ..................................................................... 25 54 Koorong St, The Gap QLD 4061, Australia. Anne Marsden + Tim Marsden | Take it from here Using type in a different culture with people of widely different educational backgrounds ........ 44 Contributions This is the meaning of life We welcome articles on personality type and Philip L Kerr | Is this the right room for an argument? related topics. Word lengths are negotiable. Editorial ......................................................................................................................................................... If you’d like to contribute, contact the Editor, 2 Philip L Kerr, at [email protected], | The new type community or after hours on 07 3300 3164. Vicky Jo Varner The online type experience is muddled with naiveté and ignorance ......................................... 39 We prefer articles in plain English, active voice and first person. We use Australian language Peter Malone | Life in two unhurried societies and style, based on the Macquarie Dictionary Jane Campion’s Bright Star and Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah .............................. and Australian Government Style Manual. We 55 reserve the right to edit articles for mechanical | All in it together … or is it just for the money? accuracy and clarity. In-text citations are not Peter Geyer required, but include a list of your references. Freewheelin’: Some conjectures ........................................................................................................... 57 Australian Association for Always look on the bright side Psychological Type Inc Meredith Fuller | Workspaces, part 14: ISFPs — in three acts I. The photographic artist/teacher aide and the air-conditioning mechanic ............................ 13 II. The hospital orderly and former chef, actor, Young Libs president, God Squad member and roadhouse owner; the personal care worker; and the hippie teacher/musician ........... 45 III. The nurse, the desktop support engineer, and the shop owner .......................................... 63 Bruce here teaches classical philosophy, Bruce there teaches Hegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism, and is also in charge of the sheep dip. Monty Python’s Flying Circus Opinions expressed by Review contributors are not Cover: Rediscovering Jung in Dallas, by graphic recorder Stephanie Crowley, www.thechrysalissolution.com (APT International) | necessarily those of AusAPT Inc or the Editor. Bernadette (ISFP) knitting a ‘Coastal Yarn’ (Meredith Fuller) | Dario Nardi at the APTi Conference in Dallas (Nancy Silcox) | ‘Myers-Briggs Type Indicator’ and ‘MBTI’ are registered Above: Python personas on parade during the filming of Monty Python’s Life of Brian in Tunisia, 1978 (Python [Monty] Pictures) trademarks of the Myers-Briggs Foundation, USA. Is this the right room for an argument? Philip L Kerr Monty Python? … ‘I like Chinese thought’, runs a Monty Python Are you sure he’s one of us? ditty, ‘the wisdom that Confucius taught’. During a symposium in Dallas, Sally Campbell noted Editor —Margaret Thatcher, to her political secretary the differences between ‘Confucian’ and West- ern cultures. Sally examines those differences here, along with generational differences. Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuted on BBC television in October 1969—and the world has Huifang Yang, Shuming Zhao and Ian Ball not been quite the same since. 40 years on, the also take up the theme of cultural differences humdrum of my working day is often enlivened in their comparative study of the temperaments by swapping snatches of favourite Python skits of managers in China and Australia. with workmates of my generation. Maintaining the multicultural momentum, Anne Python phrases have entered our language: Marsden and Tim Marsden share with us their He’s not the Messiah, he’s just a naughty boy. insights from teaching type in Zambia. Nudge, nudge, know what I mean? And the line From Hollywood (where the Pythons filmed their Margaret Thatcher parroted as a putdown of a stage show in 1982), Vicky Jo Varner recounts Liberal Democrat policy: This is an ex-parrot! her experiences in the online world of type— The Python team came out of Cambridge and a milieu ‘muddled with naiveté and ignorance’. MP: Is this the right room Oxford, and it showed in the overt ‘cleverness’ for an argument? And from Cannes, Peter Malone reviews Jane of their conceptual comedy, with its allusions Campion’s Bright Star and Warwick Thornton’s JC: I’ve told you once. to literature, history and philosophy. Their style Samson and Delilah. For Peter, the ‘unhurried MP: No you haven’t! was to prick pretensions, pomposity and petty societies’ in the two films typify ISFP cultures. JC: Yes I have! bureaucracy—and Britain had plenty of that. ISFPs feature in the latest article in Meredith But Python’s humour travelled well—even the Fuller’s Workspaces series. In a testament to Michael Palin and John Cleese putatively humourless Germans commissioned in Monty Python’s Flying Circus the trust that Meredith secures, she offers no episodes of Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus. less than eight case studies of this ‘Behind the The USA was a harder nut for Python’s British Scenes’ type, each typifying in their unique way brand of comedy. When it did catch on, it was the ISFP gifts of caregiving and creativity. not in hip San Francisco or cosmopolitan New York, but—of all places—Dallas, Texas. Meredith’s subjects include a desktop support engineer and an air–conditioning mechanic; a Dallas was the venue for the APT International photographic artist and a hippie teacher; a nurse, conference. Eight Australians were there (none a personal care worker, and a hospital orderly; Philip L Kerr (INTP) is the editor of named Bruce). In this issue of the Australian and that staple character of many memorable the Australian Psychological Type Psychological Type Review, the philosophical Python skits, a shop owner. Review and national president of Peter Geyer and I present parallel perspectives on the event and its environs. That’s an impressive array of vocations. But I AusAPT. Monty Python enlivened didn’t want to be any of those. No, I wanted to his student years, and continues In a bold step for a pair of INTPs, Peter and I be … a lumberjack! Everybody, now: to serve him well in navigating the shared a hotel room in Dallas—and managed absurdities of organisational life. to keep it free of arguments. ‘All in it together’ I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK [email protected] is the theme of Peter’s Freewheelin’ column. I sleep all night and I work all day … 2 Australian Psychological Type Review Vol 11 No. 2 October 2009 New evidence about the four temperaments and Chinese and Australian managers Doing business in China is increasingly An analysis by Liang and Whiteley (2003), Ian L Ball likely for Australian business managers. reproduced in Table 1, found fundamental Psychological Type Research Unit, According to Austrade (2007): differences in how dimensions of social Deakin University, Australia life are perceived. These were summed up Australia has good credibility in China. On as a basic difference in cultural orientation, the commercial level, our business culture ‘passion’ versus ‘mind’. Huifang Yang suits the Chinese, and Australians like to Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R. China immerse ourselves in Chinese culture and Table 1: Cultural orientations of learn about the place [so much so that] it is The University of Newcastle, Australia Chinese and Australian managers now imperative for Australian businesses to include China as part of any export strategy. Chinese Australian Shuming Zhao ‘mind’ Emphasis ‘passion’ China is now Australia’s biggest export Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R. China trading partner, and much effort has been Organisational put into the formulation of advice about respect for and cultural factors such as etiquette and how obedience to Hierarchy egalitarian to conduct negotiations (Austrade, 2009). superiors While more work has been done about basic knowledge, Training and problem solving, cultural factors, relatively little effort has basic skills education technical skills been given to issues of how Chinese and long term Planning short term Australian managers can relate to each other on personality factors. process oriented Controlling result oriented Organisational This paper reports two landmark

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