Wonderful insights Jane! When we recognize that people are different, we can be so much more effective as leaders. I personally relate to this thinking alone issue since I'm an introvert who has to go off by myself to think things out and also dislike the sound of TV's  when I'm trying to think. The average organization loses a lot of productivity because they don't understand and embrace the differences in the way their employees think. Too often, management calls a meeting to focus on new, pressing issue and expects the meeting to result in ideas and decisions. But the introverts can't fully process this in a group setting. If they were given a couple of days to think about this alone, they would return to a second meeting and run circles around everyone else. This is just one example of recognizing peoples differences especially in how their minds process information.