Thursday, July 16, 2015

Leadership: The Dutch military is trying out a new secret weapon: introverts

“I started noticing a trend,” he tells Quartz. “Many of these great leaders were fiercely quiet. They were men of few words and very good at planning and very deliberate when they spoke with great intent and great conviction. And everybody would listen.”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know if it's so much the fact that being introverted makes good leadership or the fact that too many people now-a-days just have diarrhea of the mouth. In everyday conversation one is lucky to get a word in edgewise with the average "Boobus Americanus". Nonsense and drivel spewed out in a non-stop, headache creating shit-fest...I learned a long time ago that God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason. You can't learn anything blabbing. And when you do speak, have something of importance to say, and do it in a lucid, well thought out manner...That being said I'll shut my mouth now..

Anonymous said...

'Speak softly and carry a big stick'...
A.

Pericles said...

Poster child - COL Arthur "Bull" Simons

Sedition said...

It's not the wolf-pack howling in the distant night that one needs to worry about.
The silent one, sitting just outside the range of light from the camp fire, is the most dangerous one.