Leaders don’t need to be extroverted

Many people strive to be leaders in their society so they can make a difference in the world and improve people’s lives. As many of us know, it takes just one person to create even the most significant of changes around us — this thought alone should push everyone to develop their inner leader, no matter what their personality may be.

... Karl Moore, a professor at McGill University, has been running leadership programs for the past 10 years and has researched the character traits of both introvert and extrovert leaders. His findings led to an interesting idea: “If an introverted CEO must ‘become’ an extrovert to be an effective leader, then might the opposite be true? That an extroverted leader must ‘channel’ their inner introvert in order to be an effective leader?” asks Moore.

Read full article: The State Press, December 2, 2014