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I stopped reading after this quote: • Introverted leaders led more successful teams when intuitively handling large amounts of information. • Intuitive leaders

I stopped reading after this quote: • Introverted leaders led more successful teams when intuitively handling large amounts of information. • Intuitive leaders, in general, led more successful teams when they had to handle a lot of information. "Introverted people tend to be more reflective, more introspective, they tend to be more observational than extroverted leaders," Sleesman said. "So pairing intuition with introversion tended to be very effective for team performance." Did they actually measure people with the two traits combined, or are they just inferring that people with both traits will be better than people people with either trait alone? This combined with another comment suggesting there are only about 200 captains at that base, casts serious doubt onto this result.

bitwalker 2y ago
My reading is that they were evaluating leaders on their introversion/extroversion, intuitiveness, and overall success. So you could have both introverted-intuitive and extroverted-intuitive leaders, and overall, the introverted-intuitive leaders were _more_ successful.
ebiester 2y ago
From the actual paper: "Our sample consisted of 3108 Captains in the United States Air Force who participated in a five-week leadership development course. They were randomly assigned to a 14-person MTS (there were 222 systems in our sample) for the duration of the course, such that each was comparable in terms of leadership experience (all were at the same rank and tenure), age, gender, occupation, and scores on a comprehensive military aptitude test. They participated in the same task – a three-hour computer-based simulation – for which they received the same training and time restrictions. These similarities help to ensure comparability and that no one had any performance advantage." The paper looks interesting. The blurb does not do it justice.

bitwalker 2y ago

My reading is that they were evaluating leaders on their introversion/extroversion, intuitiveness, and overall success. So you could have both introverted-intuitive and extroverted-intuitive leaders, and overall, the introverted-intuitive leaders were _more_ successful.

ebiester 2y ago

From the actual paper: "Our sample consisted of 3108 Captains in the United States Air Force who participated in a five-week leadership development course. They were randomly assigned to a 14-person MTS (there were 222 systems in our sample) for the duration of the course, such that each was comparable in terms of leadership experience (all were at the same rank and tenure), age, gender, occupation, and scores on a comprehensive military aptitude test. They participated in the same task – a three-hour computer-based simulation – for which they received the same training and time restrictions. These similarities help to ensure comparability and that no one had any performance advantage." The paper looks interesting. The blurb does not do it justice.