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#333 Ask the Expert: Leadership
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In this week's episode Sarah explores leadership with Rob Goffee, Emeritus Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School and co-author of the brilliant leadership book Why should anyone be led by you? Together they discuss how to approach answering what can initially appear to be a confronting question, the difference between management and leadership and why it's useful to borrow brilliance from social anthropology.
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