JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: Know thyself, Mr President, and how to hire the right aide
Failure to understand whether they are a reader or listener can have a huge effect on the success of leaders
27 September 2022 - 15:04
Leaders in business, government and other societal institutions sometimes fail to achieve their goals because they don’t understand themselves.
This can play itself out in two ways. A leader fails to appoint an aide who is a perfect foil to his or her character, whose task may include translating for the organisation what the leader has in mind. A leader may also not understand what his or her colleagues are feeding back to him or her...
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