Secret introverts in the executive suite: You don't need to be a people-person to be a good boss

No one expects the boss of a big organization to be a shrinking violet.

... “If you’re in an executive suite, it’s a Darwinian struggle to get there,” notes author and business professor Karl Moore. “There’s a lot of competition, so you’re quite a good leader.” And being a good leader means contact with people. Lots of it. “We expect the CEO to be an extrovert,” Moore says. “If they get on an elevator we expect them to say hello and not look downcast and not to avoid human contact, or we say, ‘What’s happening to the share price? There must be terrible troubles.’

Read full article: Ottawa Citizen, November 13, 2014