You Don’t Need to Fix the Quiet Ones: Why companies confuse culture fit with personality duplication?
People often assume the quiet person in a room is incomplete. As if silence is some kind of broken feature that needs an update. I’ve lost count of how many times someone felt the need to nudge me with that classic feedback: “Try speaking up a bit more.” It always lands like they’re telling me my value scales with decibels….
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You Don’t Need to Fix the Quiet Ones: Why companies confuse culture fit with personality duplication?
People often assume the quiet person in a room is incomplete. As if silence is some kind of broken feature that needs an update. I’ve lost count of how many times someone felt the need to nudge me with that classic feedback: “Try speaking up a bit more.” It always…
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