A joke

Two Black Forest men sit in a pub and order a schnapps. The waitress brings the schnapps, wordlessly, and walks away. The two guys tip their schnapps, without a word. After half an hour they order two more. The waitress brings two more shots, without a word, and goes their separate ways. The two Black Foresters tip their schnapps, you suspect it, wordlessly. After another half hour, the two order another round. The waitress brings two more schnapps, without a word. The two of them tip the third schnapps, and suddenly one of them says: "Man, that was a good one! Then the other one says: "Now it was such a nice evening, and then you start talking!

Introverted and Extroverted

I don't know if one can actually speak of introverted and extroverted with these two types. But you may know this from your own experience: the extroverted colleagues or the noisy competitors, i.e. those who are never at a loss for a slogan, who can talk down every meeting, are often more successful than the silent ones among us. Nowadays, self-presentation in job interviews also seems to be particularly important for the applicant and the company that wants to sell itself as young, dynamic and hip as possible. Petra Steinberger has given some clever thought to this in the Süddeutsche and mentions, among other things, an American management study with 128 larger American companies. It came out that "the charismatic, extroverted bosses received the higher salaries - but by no means achieved the better results". "People have two ears and a mouth, because they should hear more than they should talk," they say in Denmark.

Thomas Bader