Category: General

Introverted Leader Featured In Forbes.com

Bob Goodyear, one of the many terrific professionals featured in The Introverted Leader: Building On Your Quiet Strength just made the lead to a story on Forbes.com about “saying…

Obama Watch Continued

I like collecting the clues about our President’s temperament.  So I am relying on reporters like Holly Bailey of Newsweek. Is he or isn’t he(an introvert)? Bailey writes in the 5/4/09 issue http://www.newsweek.com/id/195086/page/2 of…

Is the president an introvert?

President Obama an introvert? Note what he tells Ed Henry of CNN at his recent press conference. ” I like to know what I am talking about before I…

Bosses who ask for feedback

If I was an employee again I think I would want to work for this guy – Kevin Sharer, CEO of Amgen.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/business/29corner.html?pagewanted A sample from his interview in the…

Do We Have To Talk Out Everything?

Two introverted participants in a recent communications seminar told me how frustrated they both were. What about? It turns out their company wants them to “talk out” project ideas to a variety of people outside their internal group. This is the new expectation in their culture – that they float ideas in the early stages. These introverted leaders are concerned that this reluctance to carefully think through ideas before sending them half baked into the “corporate universe”results in lower quality output.