7Secrets of Success – Conversations with Collaborative Leaders

A personal leadership journey

It was over 60 years ago that Mahatma Ghandi said ‘I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people’; he was right then and his words are still pertinent advice for leaders in the twenty-first century.1 Achieving results in today’s world means leaders ‘getting on with people’ in lots of different circumstances. Carlos Ghosn the CEO of the Renault Nissan alliance put it well when he said that leaders of the future will need ‘global empathy’ – ‘not just empathy and sensitivity for people from their own culture but for people from completely different countries and cultures’.2 To achieve this, collaborative leaders ...

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