NPR has a good report on Susan Cain’s new book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, noting that modern workplaces are often designed for extroverts. My office is a comfortable place for introverts, but I feel the pressure of the extroverts in the desire to collaborate on work that doesn’t seem very collaborative to me. I appreciate what she says about leadership training, even though I’m not a leader and don’t know what it will take to become one. Perhaps the problem is my definition of leadership.
Get Cain’s book here: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
I’d comment on this, but I’m too introverted.
The need for quiet is why it’s so wrong to demand that authors be PR reps too.