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Created in 1943 by Isabel Briggs Myers to Improve Home-Front Productivity
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- CPP, Inc., exclusive publisher of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(R) (MBTI(R)) instrument, the world's most popular personality assessment, is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the MBTI instrument's creation.
In 1943, in Philadelphia and Washington, the mother-daughter team of Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, self-schooled in Jungian psychology and personnel management, put the finishing touches on the new personality assessment tool.
Different people receive and process information and relate to the world around them in very different ways. The Myers-Briggs instrument is the premier assessment tool for understanding individual personality differences (everyone has one of 16 type preferences) and applying that understanding to the ways people work and interact.
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