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The Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type Test

Introduction

There are a number of well-known systems for classifying people's personalities according to various measures such as introversion-extroversion, and organisations often use these schemes to categorise their staff. Unfortunately, such methods do not capture a number of the most important aspects of an individual within an organisation; any corporate employee knows that whether someone is (for example) extroverted or introverted is much less critical than (say) how important they are.

An Alternative

The Lipson-Shiu test (devised by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu) attempts to remedy this and other oversights by classifying along four alternative axes:

It is important to note that none of these terms should be construed as a negative value judgement. For example, a "Stupid" person should not be able to deduce that they are less capable than an intelligent person and an "Unimportant" person shouldn't be told that their existence is irrelevant to those in charge. And certainly no-one could doubt the value of "Evil" employees to a large corporation or expect all their staff to be "Lawful"!

The Test

To assess your L-S type, the following diagnostic test has been devised:

Once you have taken the test, you can score your answers and compare your results with each of the sixteen personality archetypes:

IG
IE
UG
UE
IL
ILIG
Archangel
ILIE
Grand Vizier
ILUG
Mensch
ILUE
Gremlin
IC
ICIG
Entrepreneur
ICIE
Torturer
ICUG
Inventor
ICUE
Mad Scientist / Hacker
SL
SLIG
Figurehead
SLIE
Pointy head
SLUG
Board Monitor
SLUE
Traffic Warden
SC
SCIG
Celebrity
SCIE
Natural Disaster
SCUG
Apologiser
SCUE
Jinx

Warning

A word of warning: the test was compiled by ICUEs, and Colin Wright is an ILIE, so if you don't like the results, don't expect sympathy.

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