Psychologist says, this key skill can make people very effective leaders

TechCrunch CEO / Flickr Brian Chesky Airbnb.

By Rachel Gillett

The employees seem to love CEO Brian Chesky Airbnb.

One possible reason? The ability of the founders from the beginning to inspire fear to his people.

Take for example the headquarters of the company that transcend the people to San Francisco, and enter a different world, by simply allowing a conference room; Completely inventing The main task of the company's new, how we travel today; Airbnb houses or endless lists show us that they never knew existed.

It's hard to imagine an employee who at one time or other work staggering scale has great experience.

People who could be the ability to use these feelings of anxiety in other produce to be very effective leader, says Paul Piff, assistant professor of psychology and social behavior at the University of California, Berkeley - that is, if its powers are used for good.

In a series of studies recently published by the American Psychological Association published in the "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology" Piff and found his research team found that induce a sense of fear in people might generous, helpful and to promote positive social behavior.

"We have found that fear makes people ethical, worth less cooperative - which often play a key role in the success of the company and the workplace," Piff said Business Insider.

In one study, for example, the researchers created a group of volunteers who are in a forest of tall trees had and look at them for a minute, while the other group discussed the nature of a high-rise building. Experimenters then dumped a handful of feathers, seemingly at random, and volunteers in the fear of the big trees were particularly useful for picking.

Piff says fear has also the potential to encourage curiosity and openness to novelty, both in the center of creativity. It might be the people of cooperative and team spirit, sensitive to the collective and identify more strongly with their organizations interests.

The researchers wrote that they believe that fear induces a feeling of being in the presence of something greater than yourself changed. This diminished self-esteem shift focus away from the need for an individual and for the common good.