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

CFO of the social marketing firm Mr.
Youth, told NPR. Another management
consultant told me something similar:
“An office wall is exactly what it
sounds like—a barrier. The fresher your
methodologies of thinking, the less you
want boundaries. The companies who
use open office plans are new companies,
just like the World Wide Web,
which is still a teenager.”
The Internet’s role in promoting faceto-face
group work is especially ironic
because the early Web was a medium
that enabled bands of often introverted
individualists—people much like the
solitude-craving thought leaders Farrall
and Kronborg describe—to come together
to subvert and transcend the
usual ways of problem-solving. A significant
majority of the earliest computer
enthusiasts were introverts, according
to a study of 1,229 computer
237/929