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I've seen plenty of extroverts who are bad team members. I've seen plenty of introverts who are effective communicators.

• kijinbear 16y ago
  Extroverts can be bad team members when they're assholes. Assholes come in many flavors, but an extroverted asshole often makes a worse team member than an introverted asshole. Introverts can be effective communicators when they've thought through the problem at hand and therefore know exactly how to make sense of it. Extroverts are sometimes too distracted to think deeply about something. I think the article is talking about a specific way of talking about "team skills" and "communication skills". Some people tend to equate those terms with the ability to make small talk with everybody, be popular at parties, etc. Those kinds of "skills" are definitely lacking in introverts, yet expected of everybody where extroverted assholes are in positions of power.
  • tkahn6 16y ago
    > Assholes come in many flavors Two figures of speech that compose to form something hilarious and unexpected.