Dr James Mannion
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 12 Aug
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It's often really unspoken.
And one thing that we ended up talking about was how
And some people who sort of adopt this like leadership persona as being somebody who's very sort of tough.
They think that robust is the way to go.
And it's sort of my way or the highway.
If you don't like it, there's the door sort of thing.
And somebody who I know who researches this stuff.
has spoken to a number of people who are retired leaders who came to really regret that they had taken that approach, that they thought that that's what strong leadership looked like.
But they really regretted it.
And you write about this really interesting sort of process of integrating your sort of public self and your private self, if you like,
and bringing yourself to work, as it were, a little bit more and sort of being open about your interests, but perhaps also some of your vulnerabilities and just sort of being authentic and a bit softer and a bit more sort of, you know, relatable, I suppose.
I'd just be really interested to hear your thoughts about that whole process.
It's amazing.
Yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
Very interesting, isn't it?
There are certainly some people who are much more comfortable on the pedestal than others and who develop quite sharp elbows along the way.
And there's a really nice example of this in practice in Matt Morden's chapter on design thinking.
I think it was actually somebody, it was another school.
The book has got these little case studies at the end.
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