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Open, honest and effective: what makes Jacinda Ardern an authentic leader

  • Written by Andrei Alexander Lux, Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, Edith Cowan University
Open, honest and effective: what makes Jacinda Ardern an authentic leader

The qualities that have made Jacinda Ardern New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century were on display this week as she took an earthquake in her stride during a live television interview.

“We’re fine,” she declared cheerfully as the 5.9-magnitude quake shook New Zealand’s parliament house in Wellington for...

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