Managers and leaders are partly responsible for management fads that aren’t appropriate responses to complexity. But governments and research institutions can actually be the primary drivers of these fads.
Despite scholarly criticism of the MBTI, it’s been correlated with aspects of knowledge management. An example from the field of medicine shows that there’s more that could be done to address the persistence of the MBTI.
The dark triad personality traits can bring career success for individuals, but this comes at the expense of organisations and groups.