LEADERSHIP
PROMISES, PROMISES
Nomadic leaders in a post-trust age
It’s been a year bedevilled by half-truths, division and disruption, from Brexit to the US presidential campaigns and the usual litany of corporate cover-ups. How can leaders operating across borders bring people together? Gianpiero Petriglieri, associate professor of organisational behaviour at international business school INSEAD, spoke to Ruth Holmes about leadership in this age of mobility.
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n the US, there is a belief that anyone can become President. That day came for political establishment outsider and
billionaire Donald Trump on 9 November. A day later, award-winning INSEAD
associate professor Gianpiero Petriglieri and I met at the CIPD annual conference in a rainy Manchester, where he was to close the annual gathering with a thought-provoking endnote on leadership in an uncertain world.
How did we get here? For global markets and political leaders worldwide, Mr Trump’s victory for the Republicans was an unexpected upset. For others, it typified the turbulence described by the prevailing VUCA narrative, the win proving that we are indeed living in particularly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times. For business heads today working
in a globalised context across national boundaries, 2016’s turmoil calls for a new response. The question is, how can leaders connect with those they are serving when
trust and truth are being broken down and redefined, and fear and cynicism are setting in? What kind of leadership would, for example, Mr Trump, do well to deliver?
“Donald Trump’s US election victory
typified the turbulence described by the VUCA narrative,
proving that we live in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times”
To begin the conversation, I asked
Professor Petriglieri how, in the last six months, we have witnessed a resounding Trump victory in the US, while the UK negotiates its exit from the European Union, both after such negative and frequently violent campaigns. ➲
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