15 min

Are we celebrating the wrong leaders? | Martin Gutmann TED Talks Daily (HD video)

    • Education

We tend to celebrate leaders for their dramatic words and actions in times of crisis — but we often overlook truly great leaders who avoid the crisis to begin with. Historian Martin Gutmann challenges us to rethink what effective leadership actually looks like, drawing on lessons from the famed (but disaster-prone) explorer Ernest Shackleton.

We tend to celebrate leaders for their dramatic words and actions in times of crisis — but we often overlook truly great leaders who avoid the crisis to begin with. Historian Martin Gutmann challenges us to rethink what effective leadership actually looks like, drawing on lessons from the famed (but disaster-prone) explorer Ernest Shackleton.

15 min

Top Podcasts In Education

All Ears English Podcast
Lindsay McMahon and Michelle Kaplan
Learning English Conversations
BBC Radio
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC Radio
How to Be a Better Human
TED and PRX
Fidias Podcast
Fidias Panayiotou
Learning English Stories
BBC Radio

More by TED Talks

How to Be a Better Human
TED and PRX
TED Talks Daily
TED
TED Talks Education
TED
WorkLife with Adam Grant
TED
TED Climate
TED
TED Business
TED