{"id":166365,"date":"2023-06-25T06:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T11:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/babble-hypothesis-shows-key-factor-to-becoming-a-leader"},"modified":"2023-06-25T06:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T11:22:25","slug":"babble-hypothesis-shows-key-factor-to-becoming-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/babble-hypothesis-shows-key-factor-to-becoming-a-leader","title":{"rendered":"Babble hypothesis shows key factor to becoming a leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Kv2vz1MQNA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want to become a leader, start yammering. It doesn\u2019t even necessarily matter what you say. New research shows that groups without a leader can find one if somebody starts talking a lot.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon, described by the \u201cbabble hypothesis\u201d of leadership, depends neither on group member intelligence nor personality. Leaders emerge based on the quantity of speaking, not quality.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher Neil G. MacLaren, lead author of the study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1048984320300369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Leadership Quarterly<\/em><\/a>, believes his team\u2019s work may improve how groups are organized and how individuals within them are trained and evaluated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to become a leader, start yammering. It doesn\u2019t even necessarily matter what you say. New research shows that groups without a leader can find one if somebody starts talking a lot. This phenomenon, described by the \u201cbabble hypothesis\u201d of leadership, depends neither on group member intelligence nor personality. Leaders emerge based on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}