Quiet Leader, 1st edition

Published by Pearson Business (September 16, 2024) © 2025

  • Sissel Heiberg
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Title overview

You don't have to be loud to be a good leader.

Quiet Leader by Sissel Heiberg will help you enhance your skills as an introvert leader, offering you a strategy toolkit that will help you better understand your leadership values as an introvert.

Unlike traditional leadership books, Quiet leader does not suggest ways to "fix" your introversion to improve leadership; rather than shying away from it, it challenges you to embrace it, offering you the tools you need to use your skills and aptitudes to your benefit.

Table of contents

  • What brought us here
  • Part 1: Introversion at work
  • 1. Are you an introvert?
  • 2. Why we're biased in favour of extroverts
  • 3. What types of leaders do we want and need?
  • 4. Creating successful and diverse teams
  • 5. How to flex your behaviour to any situation
  • Part 2: The quiet leader's skills
  • Skills quiz: Which areas do you want to focus on?
  • 6. I think, therefore I am (Reflection)
  • 7. Human, know thyself (Self-awareness)
  • 8. You see? (Observation)
  • 9. Do you hear me? (Listening)
  • 10. I feel you (Empathy)
  • 11. Eating humble pie (Humility)
  • 12. Keep calm and carry on (Calmness)
  • Where do we go next?

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