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boards were not the people with the

best ideas. They were the best

presenters.

Contrary to the Harvard Business

School model of vocal leadership, the

ranks of effective CEOs turn out to be

filled with introverts, including Charles

Schwab; Bill Gates; Brenda Barnes, CEO

of Sara Lee; and James Copeland,

former CEO of Deloitte Touche

Tohmatsu. “Among the most effective

leaders I have encountered and worked

with in half a century,” the management

guru Peter Drucker has written,

“some locked themselves into their office

and others were ultra-gregarious.

Some were quick and impulsive, while

others studied the situation and took

forever to come to a decision.… The

one and only personality trait the effective

ones I have encountered did

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