Are introverts better leaders?

 It seems that the answer is yes. 

And to take it a step further, the Jewish leaders who least wanted to lead, proved the best leaders. 

Leaders far and wide, be they good or evil, have often needed a time strictly to themselves, be it in jail, the Soviet Gulag, or in the Jewish version, shepherding one's flock, internalizing the enormity, and the graveness one faces when taking upon him or herself far-reaching decisions that invariably determine the course of another's life. 

For Moshe, it was being swept from Pharaoh's palace, because of the seemingless non-commital act of killing an Egyptian taskmaster devoid of the public eye. It so happened that Datan and Aviram - our sages teach us - witnessed the act, or at least became apprised of it, or intuited that it had happened, and Moshe fled to the Land of Midian, abandoned and bereft of his adoptive mother, and bretheren, with nothing to do but wait around for salvation at the shepherds' well, hoping companionship and destiny would be forged from whence the waters come. 

Invited home, he becomes a husband, a shepherd, and then the predesignated leader of the Jewish people, a role he begrudged, sought to avoid, and needed to be coerced into accepting, with a mix of reverse psychology, guilt, and deception, on the part of no other than God Himself. "What is the sign?" Moshe asked. "After you redeem my people," God told him, "and free them from bondage, then, on this very mountain you will come and serve me!"

God told Moshe Aharon was already on the way; he was not - shortly thereafter God beckoned Aharon to go greet Moshe, and presumably accept him as the new leader of our people. 

And, when push comes to shove, Moshe - "our teacher" - or, Rabbeinu, the one whose word was equivalent to that of God, and whose teaches were on the same stature as that of God Almighty, was no less and no more than a reluctant leader, like Saul, like David, who needed to prove themselves as leaders, whose majesty was their humility, grace, a love for mankind and the people exalted over all others, to teach the world a higher ethic, and a greater morality, founded not on speech, but actions, which would shape mankind, our destiny and God's will forever.