Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

What's your legacy?

At Russ Reynolds, we have our wonderful leadership portrait model, which looks a lot at leadership potential.

That's something that happens everywhere.

I think leaders everywhere understand that it's less and less important

meaningful to look at what leaders have accomplished in the past their past performance their expertise their experience and more and more we're needing to look at their potential the soft skills leadership capabilities their ability to span and so forth then you have the differences and of course the cultural nuances are important you know my latest book is on authenticity which if you go around the globe

has such different connotations and implications.

In the US, especially in the West Coast, bringing your whole self to work, just being yourself, it's kind of worship, celebrated, et cetera.

You go as far as New York and people are more skeptical.

You get to London and people are like, my God, really?

I mean, come on.

So I think the how...

varies a lot.

And also, even if you look at certain things like how hierarchical cultures are, interest in diversity, inclusion, which is changing even in the same place as you, you know, go from one year to the next.

So I think the how and culture vary a lot, but the what and the why are basically universal.

it's a little bit like, you know, how spicy do you like your food?

Or, you know, I mean, if you have no salt, no pepper, no condiments, it'd be like blunt and like airplane food.

But then, you know, I have a lot of Mexican friends and Indian friends.

And if I don't give them the Tabasco or the chili, they're like, this is very plain, right?

So it's how direct you can be is a little bit like how spicy do you want your food?

The universal bits are really important because