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What it takes to be a great leader: A recommended reading list
Leadership expert Roselinde Torres suggests three big questions you should ask tomorrow's leaders, and provides useful articles and books to get started.
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BCG's Roselinde Torres studies what makes great leaders tick — and figures out how to teach others the same skills.
Why you should listen
Roselinde Torres is a senior partner and managing director at the consulting firm, BCG. A senior leader in the firm’s "people and organization" practice area, she is also the company's resident expert on leadership, a topic she has studied her entire career.
Questions she likes to ask include, "what innovative methods can help prepare the next generation of leaders?" and "how do we enable leaders to unlearn past modes and habits of success?"
Prior to joining BCG in 2006, Roselinde was a senior partner at Mercer Delta Consulting, while she has also led internal consulting teams at Johnson & Johnson and Connecticut Mutual Life. She speaks frequently about organizational transformation and leadership; her work and thinking have been featured in publications such as BusinessWeek and The Economist.
What others say
“"The best leadership development doesn't happen by just going off to a course or a seminar … The best leadership development happens when people are learning in the context of their own strategic, economic agenda, with the actual people that they are going to influence and lead."” — Roselinde Torres