Common Core Collaboration: Detrimental for Leadership Qualities?
Common Core standards stress collaboration and groupthink. The proponents will tell you it is necessary to make students successful, global thinkers and ready for the 21st century economy, whatever a 21st century economy looks like.
Not so fast. An article in forbes.com details what makes a leader and it’s not what the CCSS proponents are promising will equip your child with strong work skills and success. From Leadership Tip: Hire the Quiet Neurotic, Not the Impressive Extrovert:
Most leaders are attracted to the guy or woman who seems confident
and outgoing, unafraid in any situation or facing any challenge. They
expect an extrovert to infuse any team with energy, to push ahead on
projects and to motivate colleagues to do their best work. Meantime they
have low expectations of anyone who appears neurotic, who seems
withdrawn and too anxious to live up to their potential. Leaders expect
neurotic employees to contribute little and to drag down colleagues’
morale.Not true, says a new study by Corinne Bendersky, an associate
professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. In a paper called
“The Downfall of Extraverts and Rise of Neurotics: The Dynamic Process
of Status Allocation in Task Groups,” Bendersky and co-author Neha
Parikh Shah, an assistant professor at Rutgers Business School, explodes
stereotypes about how extroverts and neurotics perform on teams. It
turns out that extroverts contribute less than team members expect and
the contributions they do make are not valued highly over time.
Neurotics, by contrast, are motivated to work hard on behalf of their
teams, who wind up appreciating their efforts, in part because they
exceed everyone’s expectations. In the end, extroverts decline in the
teams’ esteem while neurotics rise in status.The lesson of the study: Bendersky says team leaders should be wary of
extroverts. “The core of an extroverted personality is to be
attention-seeking,” she observes. “It turns out they just keep talking,
they don’t listen very well and they’re not very receptive to other
people’s input. They don’t contribute as much as people think they
will.” If she were putting together a team, says Bendersky,“I would
staff it with more neurotics and fewer extroverts than my initial
instinct would lead me to do.”
Maybe those introverts and neurotics need to be left alone with their own thoughts and answers to problems. Good luck to these budding leaders as they are mandated to collaborate and share their work with others.
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