The Indispensable, Unlikely Leadership of Abraham Lincoln

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🗓️ 29 November 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Gautam Mukunda, Harvard Business School assistant professor and author of "Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter."

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0:33.1	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.6	I'm talking today with Gautam Makunda
0:36.6	from Harvard Business School.
0:38.3	He is the author of Indispensable,
0:40.6	When Leaders Really Matter. Gautam, thanks so much for joining us today.
0:44.6	Thank you, Sarah, it's a pleasure to be here.
0:46.6	So your work and this book really focuses on what you call extreme leaders.
0:51.6	Can you just start by telling us what is an extreme leader?
0:55.0	So an extreme leader is a different leader.
0:58.0	Someone who, the fact that that individual was in that place at that time, really had a huge impact on the outcome of
1:04.7	events.
1:05.7	So when I say extreme, what I really mean is compared to all the other people who plausibly
1:09.8	could have had that job, this person is extremely different for most of the others, most of the
1:14.9	other likely ones.
1:16.2	So there might have been other people who could have been there, but they didn't matter
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