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is especially excited about the implicationsof these findings because proactiveemployees who take advantage ofopportunities in a fast-moving, 24/7business environment, without waitingfor a leader to tell them what to do, areincreasingly vital to organizational success.To understand how to maximizethese employees’ contributions is animportant tool for all leaders. It’s alsoimportant for companies to groomlisteners as well as talkers for leadershiproles.The popular press, says Grant, is fullof suggestions that introverted leaderspractice their public speaking skills andsmile more. But Grant’s research suggeststhat in at least one important regard—encouragingemployees to takeinitiative—introverted leaders woulddo well to go on doing what they donaturally. Extroverted leaders, on the178/929
other hand, “may wish to adopt a morereserved, quiet style,” Grant writes.They may want to learn to sit down sothat others might stand up.Which is just what a woman namedRosa Parks did naturally.179/929For years before the day in December1955 when Rosa Parks refused to giveup her seat on a Montgomery bus, sheworked behind the scenes for theNAACP, even receiving training in nonviolentresistance. Many things had inspiredher political commitment. Thetime the Ku Klux Klan marched in frontof her childhood house. The time herbrother, a private in the U.S. Armywho’d saved the lives of white soldiers,came home from World War II only to
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other hand, “may wish to adopt a more
reserved, quiet style,” Grant writes.
They may want to learn to sit down so
that others might stand up.
Which is just what a woman named
Rosa Parks did naturally.
179/929
For years before the day in December
1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give
up her seat on a Montgomery bus, she
worked behind the scenes for the
NAACP, even receiving training in nonviolent
resistance. Many things had inspired
her political commitment. The
time the Ku Klux Klan marched in front
of her childhood house. The time her
brother, a private in the U.S. Army
who’d saved the lives of white soldiers,
came home from World War II only to
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