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Gianpiero Petriglieri: Why the best leaders put relationships first
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What does love have to do with leadership? More than most leaders dare to admit.
My guest is Gianpiero Petriglieri, a professor at INSEAD and one of the most original and provocative voices on leadership today. We explore his idea of leadership as a kind of love, not sentimental or naive, but deeply relational. He makes a compelling distinction between performance and outcome, arguing that what you can control is not the result but the daily choices and gestures you make.
We go into the practical too. Gianpiero shares why curiosity and generosity shift everything, and why what really develops leaders is relationships with people who tell you the truth.
If you lead a team or organisation, this conversation will invite you to look differently at the small moments of time, attention and care that make leadership real, credible and human.
"Leadership is a relationship, not a toolkit." - Gianpiero Petriglieri
You’ll hear about:
- Leadership reframed as a kind of love.
- Instrumental versus humanistic relationships.
- Curiosity and generosity as leadership habits.
- Feeling safe and free at the same time.
- Why passion without devotion disappoints.
- Balancing reality and imagination.
- People, not programmes, develop leaders.
- Advice for leaders in a new role.
- Culture lives in the spreadsheet.
- Investment as leadership credibility.
- Quick-fire round on presence and connection.
- Gianpiero's best day habits.
About Gianpiero Petriglieri:
Gianpiero Petriglieri is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and an expert on leadership and learning in the workplace.
His award-winning research and teaching focus on what it means, and what it takes, to become a leader. He is particularly interested in the meaning and practice of leadership in the age of “nomadic professionalism,” an age in which people have deep bonds to work but loose affiliations to organisations, and authenticity and mobility have replaced loyalty and advancement as hallmarks of virtue and success. A Medical Doctor and Psychiatrist by training, Gianpiero has worked as an executive coach, practiced as a psychotherapist, and served on the staff of group relations conferences in Europe and the United States.
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