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As a follow-up to the “Quiet” post, this is an acronym I heard years ago. A client reminded me of it recently. “When I learned the WAIT acronym,” he said, “that was a learning moment burned into my head!”
WAIT stands for Why Am I Talking?
That’s the title of a great new book by Susan Cain. It’s subtitled “The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking” and it profiles the many ways in which we undervalue introversion. It also points up what we lose in the process.
She talks about introversion in both personal and professional domains. I was especially drawn to her debunking of some of our most sacred leadership cows, like the myth of charismatic leadership. Introverts