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the one who’s had an 80 or 85 average
in school and plenty of extracurricular
activity. We see little use for the “brilliant”
introvert.’ ”
This college dean grasped very well
that the model employee of the midcentury—even
one whose job rarely involved
dealing with the public, like a
research scientist in a corporate
lab—was not a deep thinker but a
hearty extrovert with a salesman’s personality.
“Customarily, whenever the
word brilliant is used,” explains Whyte,
“it either precedes the word ‘but’ (e.g.,
‘We are all for brilliance, but …’) or is
coupled with such words as erratic, eccentric,
introvert, screwball, etc.”
“These fellows will be having contact
with other people in the organization,”
said one 1950s executive about the
hapless scientists in his employ, “and it
helps if they make a good impression.”
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