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South China Morning Post – Leadership: Nobody’s perfect

What characterizes outstanding leaders? Courage, determination and resilience, writes Egon Zehnder consultant Catherine Zhu in a blog that relates her encounter with one of Japan’s few female CEOs. Nobody is perfect, notes Zhu. But exceptional leaders tend to take a positive approach to their own weaknesses and see challenges as an opportunity for learning and growth. “When we realize each one of us is a work in progress, then we can find the resilience to keep learning, keep leading and bounce back when we fall,” Zhu concludes.

Full story: Catherine Zhu: Nobody’s perfect: each one of us is a work in progress a blog entry posted on cpjobs.com, the career supplement of the South China Morning Post (11 April 2015).
Read further columns of Catherine Zhu in the South China Morning Post .