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Larger-than-life leaders can suffer from their insatiable desires Published February 20, 2021 Bookmark The leaders who make a lasting impression are often larger-than-life characters with gargantuan appetites. We may praise balance, but they are decidedly unbalanced. Yet often, they cast a spell over us. They want it all – and then some. They seem unsatisfiable in their cravings. Harvard University Professor Barbara Kellerman and SUNY professor Todd Pittinsky explore this little-discussed...

40:24 Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is Founding Executive Director of the School’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2016, she was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Leadership Association. She has written many books and articles about leadership and followership, most recently  Professionalizing Leadership, and (with Todd Pittinsky)  Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitima...