Sucking Air & Filling Space

5.28.15  |  Sucking Air & Filling Space

Amazing piece on the radio today with Susan Cain on the Power of Introverts with a focus on how the modern workplace has shifted from celebrating the introverted employee ideal to the extroverted employee ideal…or, as I like to say, “shiny people who make the most noise.” 

"We moved from what cultural historians call a culture of character to a culture of personality. During the culture of character, what was important was the good deeds that you performed when nobody was looking…But at the turn of the century, when we moved into this culture of personality, suddenly what was admired was to be magnetic and charismatic.”