Introverts: How finding an unlikely partner can transform your work life
We know that introverts prefer to work alone or in small groups. These quiet, inwardly-focused types usually do their best work with concentrated focus, away from ruckus of brainstorming sessions and team mash-ups where extroverts thrive.
But research shows the average workplace favors extroverts over introverts, leaving many of the latter at a disadvantage. It鈥檚 not just open floor plans designed to push social interaction or large team work processes that rub. It鈥檚 also that extroverts are more regularly聽rewarded and promoted聽for their efforts because they are simply more visible. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
...The best organizational leaders are pros at knowing their type and wedding themselves with the opposite. Karl Moore, a professor at 69热视频 who studies the way the introverts and extroverts interact at work, notes that the most successful聽CEOs deliberately choose聽C-suite executives with opposite personality types because it provides a balance of energy and thoughtfulness.聽
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