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The topic of leadership can be addressed in a number of ways, and for the purpose of our
time together today, I'd like to look at it in what I call "the holistic leadership
way". And I want to read a couple of quotes to you about holistic leadership and just
give you my thoughts on them, but I think they're really great insights into what the
holistic leader for the 21st century looks like. The late novelist David Foster Wallace
writes that real leaders are those who help us overcome the limitations of our individual
laziness, selfishness, weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we
can get ourselves to do on our own. Wonderful, wonderful insight.
Now, let me go to another quote to share with you how that looks in everyday life. And I
want to draw upon a quote from a professor at the Columbia Business School by the name
of Hitendra Wadhwa and what he says is this: "Average leaders focus on results, and that's
it. Good leaders focus on the behaviors that will get the results. But great leaders focus,
in addition, on the emotions that will drive those behaviors. And to me, this is all about
the convergence of emotional intelligence, social intelligence and what I like to call,
contextual intelligence. It's bringing it all together to understand what drives the
behavior, the attitudes, the emotions of others, because that's how we get things done in the
21st century. Think about it. Till next time, I'm Pepper de Callier.