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So what do <strong>in</strong>troverted leaders do differentlyfrom—and sometimes betterthan—extroverts?One answer <strong>com</strong>es from the work <strong>of</strong>Wharton management pr<strong>of</strong>essor AdamGrant, who has spent considerable timeconsult<strong>in</strong>g with Fortune 500 executivesand military leaders—from Google tothe U.S. Army and Navy. When we firstspoke, Grant was teach<strong>in</strong>g at the RossSchool <strong>of</strong> Bus<strong>in</strong>ess at the University <strong>of</strong>Michigan, where he’d be<strong>com</strong>e conv<strong>in</strong>cedthat the exist<strong>in</strong>g research, whichshowed a correlation between extroversionand leadership, didn’t tell thewhole story.Grant told me about a w<strong>in</strong>g <strong>com</strong>mander<strong>in</strong> the U.S. Air Force—one rankbelow general, <strong>in</strong> <strong>com</strong>mand <strong>of</strong> thousands<strong>of</strong> people, charged with protect<strong>in</strong>ga high-security missile base—whowas one <strong>of</strong> the most classically170/929

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