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Introvert execs in extrovert masks: Karl Moore on the importance of game-face

Karl Moore
Published: 5 July 2017

Desautels Professor Karl Moore writes for Thinkers50 that introverts and extroverts in leadership roles must, on occasion, take on one another’s characteristics as a form of game-face.

The traditional leadership wisdom has it that leaders are mostly extroverts, but he calls that “very much an out-of-date view,” pointing to his own interviews with CEOs and senior execs, which show that there is a huge number of introverts in corporate C-Suites.

These senior executives would do well to put on an extrovert face when they step out of their office in order to avoid their silence being misread as anger or dislike.

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