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MODERN LEADERS FOR MODERN TIMES
FAILING TO SET SAIL
King Gustavus Adolphus may well have benefited from learning to lead with his head and his heart as he pushed shipbuilders to launch the Vasa, the most spectacular warship ever built. Thinking about the leadership of seventeenth-century Swedish monarch King Gustavus Adolphus may be a strange place to consider modern leadership but his legacy is a hard one to forget. He is also an example of a leader who, had he led with his head and his heart, may have had a different legacy to share.
In 1628, the Vasa set sail for its maiden voyage from Stockholm Harbour in full view of King Adolphus and a cheering Swedish public. Built with elegance and firepower in mind, the ship proudly displayed sixty-four ...
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