As Europe struggles to find solutions to its sovereign debt crisis, Wharton management professor Michael Useem sees
the opportunity for leadership there to rise to a challenge: Putting
Europe's needs above their own country, and themselves. For politicians
seeking reelection, it might be a difficult challenge, but Useem says
the willingness to make tough decisions and put others' needs before
their own are the most inspiring and important qualities leaders can
demonstrate in a crisis.
Useem, who is director of Wharton's Center for Leadership and Change Management, recently authored The Leader's Checklist,
a collection of 15 principles that can help leaders navigate
successfully through even the most difficult circumstances. Using such
milestone events as the rescue of the 33 Chilean miners in 2010, the
collapse of AIG in 2008 and the surrender of the Confederate army at
Appomattox in 1865, Useem illustrates the difference between good and
bad leadership, and how to achieve one's own personal leadership
success.
Useem spoke to Arabic Knowledge@Wharton during a recent visit to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. An edited transcript of the conversation follows.
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