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implementing the ideas that made
sense, while making it clear that he had
the final authority. He wasn’t concerned
with getting credit or even with
being in charge; he simply assigned
work to those who could perform it
best. This meant delegating some of his
most interesting, meaningful, and important
tasks—work that other leaders
would have kept for themselves.
Why did the research not reflect the
talents of people like the wing commander?
Grant thought he knew what
the problem was. First, when he looked
closely at the existing studies on personality
and leadership, he found that
the correlation between extroversion
and leadership was modest. Second,
these studies were often based on
people’s perceptions of who made a
good leader, as opposed to actual
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