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thenewgreen  ·  4401 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don’t Call Introverted Children ‘Shy’

I work in sales. Our division has about 70 people. We were at a conference last year and it was all about the various "social styles": analytical, driver, amicable, extrovert etc. We had to take a questionnaire and at the end were placed in a social "quadrant". They had all of the "extroverts" stand against one wall and then all of the introverts against another. Sales people are overwhelmingly extroverted. There were only about 9 people against the introvert wall. The extrovert wall was loud, gregarious and in a constant state of motion, while the other wall was calmer, quiet and just sort of soaking it all in. Of the people against the extrovert wall roughly 10% were in a leadership position. Against the introvert wall I'd say 5 out of the 9 were leaders. -Interesting.