Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Really, the how you think about leadership started very early for me.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, Argentina was the Dubai of the times, super rich country.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
In Paris, they had an expression, to be rich like an Argentine, and most Europeans were emigrating to Argentina to make it.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Through a series of bad leadership choices,
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
we managed to almost devolve.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
I remember vividly being eight years old and holding the equivalent of a $20 or 20 pound note and suddenly being told it's now worth two cents.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
In the next three or four weeks, again, I was only eight, we had four presidents rotating, one after the other.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
That and the combination that Buenos Aires was still a big, big center for psychoanalytic therapy
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
I always tell the story.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
I grew up in an area of Buenos Aires called Vila Freud, which boasts still today the highest concentration of psychoanalysts per capita in the world.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
So I kind of was predetermined to study the psychology of leadership.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
So that's on a theoretical level.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Many, many, many years later, I had the opportunity to finish my studies, get a scholarship, and leave Argentina.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Instead of kind of trying to make it better, I got a scholarship to go to the UK, to London,
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Deciding to leave was the redefining moment.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
And I always tell people, including my students, if you look at the population of the world, only 6% of people work in a country other than the one they were born.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Guess what?
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
They tend to be more open-minded, more curious, more resilient, more hardworking.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
I'm not bragging about myself, but you have to adapt.
Redefiners
The Truth About Talent, AI, and Why Some Leaders Get It Wrong with RRA Chief Science Officer Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
And in the beginning, it was super hard.