{"id":281,"date":"2025-05-08T07:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=281"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:03:59","slug":"why-do-we-celebrate-incompetent-leaders-martin-gutmann-tedxberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duckpi.com\/leadership\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Why do we celebrate incompetent leaders? | Martin Gutmann | TEDxBerlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DU06c7f9fzc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Management historian Martin Gutmann challenges us to rethink what great leadership looks like. While we tend to celebrate those with a proclivity for action and brash words, great leaders are often precisely those who don&#8217;t need to generate excessive noise or activity. 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