We had a brilliant conversation about leadership with Martin Gutmann, author of the best-selling book The Unseen Leader and a professor at the Lucerne School of Business, Switzerland.
The takeaways from this episode
- A good leader can look like anybody, especially if companies are serious and committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Why Ernest Henry Shackleton, an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, might be the wrong person to profile in books about leadership.
- Why is it today that we still see many people lean towards leaders in history who are action-orientated instead of results-orientated?
- We talk about the pivotal role that Gertrude Bell played in forming the modern state of Iraq and garnering the respect of many arab leaders at the time around the First World War.
- Do leaders who focus too much on self-promotion lose their impact?
- We explore how we can develop ourselves to become more impactful leaders.
- The positive impact of scheduling some unscheduled time for productivity, creativity, and well-being.
- A common trap can be the plunging bias, where leaders start solving problems before we understand them.
- Your leadership journey is an experiment of one, and you have to experiment and figure out what works best for you.
