For the love of sticky notes

Oh for the Love of Sticky Notes! The Changing Role of Evaluators Who Work with Foundations

There I was, stuffing sticky notes and Sharpies into a Ziploc bag. And staring back at me, in sharp neon relief, was the realization that my job as an evaluator had changed. Big time.

But before I get to that, let me offer some background. While I haven't done any scientific research on this, I've done a good amount of asking around. And I'd posit that if you mapped the personality types of evaluators, a pretty sizable chunk would fall into what the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® personality inventory calls the INTJ type.

The letters stand for Introversion, Intuition, Thinking, and Judging. I'd guess the percentage of evaluators who are INTJs (one of 16 possible personality types) is way higher than the nationwide average of 2-4 percent of the population.[1]

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