quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

So what do introverted leaders do differently
from—and sometimes better
than—extroverts?
One answer comes from the work of
Wharton management professor Adam
Grant, who has spent considerable time
consulting with Fortune 500 executives
and military leaders—from Google to
the U.S. Army and Navy. When we first
spoke, Grant was teaching at the Ross
School of Business at the University of
Michigan, where he’d become convinced
that the existing research, which
showed a correlation between extroversion
and leadership, didn’t tell the
whole story.
Grant told me about a wing commander
in the U.S. Air Force—one rank
below general, in command of thousands
of people, charged with protecting
a high-security missile base—who
was one of the most classically
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