Title: 'Authenticity' is not about playing roles or managing appearances - Charles Spinosa
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Keywords: Leadership, authenticity, Financial Times
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Date produced: 2012
Consultants help leaders cultivate a disposition to be true to the full range of human virtues, particularly in the face of their organisations' extinction. Is this useful? In 2008, we lived with a financial community where no leader emerged who would stand for the industry as a whole. In the face of the industry's extinction, the leaders competed skilfully against each other as though they could win the game. There were no Plenty Coups, no authentic leaders. The government had to step in. Consultants who help leaders develop authenticity are working to make sure we never see such a failure in leadership again.