The Ultimate Boss Is the Audience

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Leadership is nakedness. You are not the boss. The ultimate boss, no matter how many acolades you have, the ultimate boss is the audience. Let that confidence, even though you are naked, over and over again, you don't see your own nakedness. And that is what it is, i think, to be an artist's full stop. Hye, i really. Doou do you think that requires, don't git out apraisi dido, requires a degree of vulnerability? Because you're talking about yourself, ina, sense, in that y, you know, you'retalking about your walls, your house, your r you. Does

Chris Hirst, Global CEO of advertising group Havas Creative, cuts through the bullshit and gets to the heart of modern leadership in this straight-talking podcast brought to you by Intelligence Squared. In this episode Chris speaks to Kwame Kwei-Armah, the Artistic Director of the Young Vic theatre in London. He is also an actor, playwright, singer and broadcaster. From 2011 to 2018 he was the Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage, and he was Artistic Director for the Festival of Black arts and Culture, Senegal, in 2010. His series of eight short films, Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle, was shown on BBC4 in 2019. He is a patron of Ballet Black and a visiting fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. If you enjoyed this podcast please let us know what you think by rating and reviewing No Bullsh*t Leadership on Apple Podcasts.

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