Chapter 23
WORKING WITH PEOPLE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SPECTRUM
HISTORY IS REPLETE WITH EXAMPLES of successful introvert-extrovert teams, from US president Franklin Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor, to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, to Apple’s cofounders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, to tennis superstars Serena and Venus Williams, and so on. I once interviewed two marketing managers, Jason and Jillian. These two were probably the most polar opposite in terms of introversion and extroversion that I’ve ever met.
When they were paired, these two, whose personalities couldn’t have been any more different, could barely find any intersecting points of interest or common ground for discussion. When everyone else viewed this pairing, ...
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