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Insight: Mar 3

A panel of leaders from different fields sits down to discuss 'What makes a great leader?"

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This week Insight a panel of leaders from different fields sits down with host Jenny Brockie to discuss ‘What makes a great leader?”

They discuss how much ambition matters, the value of personal loyalty, when to listen to or ignore advice, and whether leading is innate or learned.

The leaders will also challenge the wisdom of Australia’s ‘tall poppy syndrome’ and reveal just how lonely it can be at the top.

Guests include:

Ange Postecoglou
Socceroos coach: “During the heat of battle, you can’t turn to your superior and say ‘what do we do here’ and say ‘I don’t know?’ … Inaction is the worst thing you can do as a leader and I think saying ‘I don’t know’ is a bit of inaction.”

Raelene Castle
Bulldogs CEO: “If my family were here they would probably tell you that the family joke is that I won’t play unless I’m the captain … I always felt very comfortable getting appointed into those leadership roles. So it was never something that I shied away from.”

Clare Martin
Former Northern Territory chief minister: “… most of my federal colleagues said to me: ‘So you’re the poor turkey who’s got the job in the Northern Territory? You’re the one with the worst political job in Australia’.”

Chris Evans
Former Labor minister: “The political culture in Canberra has got terrible. What the values people are representing are I think appalling, the leaking, the backgrounding, the failure to provide leadership. We were banning mobile phones from party rooms or use of them from party rooms because people were texting journalists who were broadcasting at the time what was happening in the meeting.”

Peter Leahy
Former Chief of Army: “Too many people these days think being a politician is more about having a job, than it is about wanting to do something broadly for the community … of thinking where should Australia be in the next ten or fifteen years?”

Tuesday at 8.30pm on SBS ONE.

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