Tedlow: The need for charismatic leadership will increase as knowledge work grows
Richard Tedlow · Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222) · Nov 15, 2021 · at 38:44
Business historian Richard Tedlow responds to Ted Seides' question on whether decentralized structures like Web3 and DAOs will reduce the need for charismatic corporate leaders.
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“I think that the need for charisma is actually going to increase, not decrease, and here's why. The people who are going to create whatever it is that's coming down the pike are going to be knowledge workers, and they're going to have to be really smart. If you look at the people who I've had the pleasure and privilege of working with and just interacting with, these people, they're just unbelievably brilliant. Think about the camera in a phone, and think about what it means to mass produce a camera in a phone, and so I had the pleasure when I was at Apple of interacting with the Hardware and the software people who did that camera. These people are as smart as anybody, anywhere. And so, I think that for them to follow a leader, a Steve Jobs, you gotta have charisma. I don't see it diminishing.”
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