Picking Presidents: How My Parents Influenced My Career

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My father was an engineer with the, for most of my life, with the government. My mom is a nuclear physicist who spent her entire career consulting for NASA. She got her PhD in nuclear physics when she was 22. And do you ever see the Martian? The Batman movie? Yeah.

In this podcast episode, we sit down with Gautam Mukunda, a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership, to discuss what we can learn about leadership from presidential elections. Drawing on insights from his book 'Picking Presidents', which examines the qualities that make for successful leaders, Mukunda provides a fascinating analysis of filtered and unfiltered presidents alike. Whether you're a political junkie or simply interested in the qualities that make for effective leadership, this episode is sure to provide plenty of food for thought.

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