Communication Tendencies, and the Consequences of Personality in Teams

The more stressed an extrovert is, the more they communicate, and this results in a negative feedback loop and a self-correcting system. The more stressed an introvert is, the less they communicate, and this results in a positive feedback loop and a non-correcting system.

As an extrovert in the workforce, I was unfortunate to encounter too few bad soldiers over the early parts of my career. When I was first tasked to run an entire business, one of the first mistakes I made was not anticipating the group behaviour of introverts.

Many introverts were incapable of coherent arguments among each other, such that my intervention was required at various points. From this I had to learn to increase the strictness of my protocol definition, in setting mandates for staff.

Of course, this is just one definition for introversion and extroversion. In other texts, you might find other definitions being used.