Personality and leadership: a qualitative and quantitative review.

By T. Judge, J. Bono, R. Ilies, Megan W. Gerhardt. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2002

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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings (2018, background): “Extraversion also has een found to increase job performance, particularly in management nd sales occupations ( Barrick and Mount, 1991 ), and it is positively orrelated with leadership ability (meta-analysis in Judge et al., 2002 ).”
Executive Extraversion: Career and Firm Outcomes (2018, neutral): “6 See Smola and Scholkopf (2004) and Keerthi et al. (2001) for details on the sequential minimal optimization (SMO) algorithm, which is the implementation used to solve the SVM regression problem for our estimates.”
Does emotional intelligence – as measured by the EQI – influence transformational leadership and/or desirable outcomes? (2006, neutral): “While of substantial practical importance (Schmidt and Hunter, 1981), the relationship between intelligence and leadership is nevertheless relatively modest (Judge et al., 2004, 2002).”
Intelligence and leadership: a quantitative review and test of theoretical propositions. (2004, methodology): “A recent meta-analysis (Judge et al., 2002) revealed that both extraversion ( 1 .31) and conscientiousness ( 1 .28) had stronger average correlations with leadership than intelligence.”