Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

What is more important than that?

Nothing else.

And, you know, I was born and raised in a country that has uniquely been in economic decline for 150 years, courtesy of bad leaders.

So I'm a little bit traumatized.

I have PTSD with making bad leadership choices.

I can't fix my country, but if I can contribute to improving how organizations and businesses are led, and the world is led when you operate at the top of the house, C-suite and the most successful companies, that's amazing.

I think it's a fantastic culture.

I'm really, really looking forward to this adventure and spending some time also with the two of you.

And I'm really looking forward to working together with you and everybody else.

So it's an exciting new chapter.

Really, the how you think about leadership started very early for me.

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, Argentina was the Dubai of the times, super rich country.

In Paris, they had an expression, to be rich like an Argentine, and most Europeans were emigrating to Argentina to make it.

Through a series of bad leadership choices,

we managed to almost devolve.

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.

In the next three or four weeks, again, I was only eight, we had four presidents rotating, one after the other.

That and the combination that Buenos Aires was still a big, big center for psychoanalytic therapy

I always tell the story.

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.