Interview: Great leadership can come from the intersection between East and West - Wesa Chau

In this interview, Jeffery and Wesa explores what great leadership means and the differences between the East and West. We discuss leadership in context of the global COVID pandemic, the relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach. We close with some practical advice on how a humble leader could approach self-promotion.
00:00 Intro00:40 Wesa's story and how she became an advocate for International students12:00 What is the cultural (bamboo) ceiling?14:00 Cultural diversity not conducive to collusion18:00 How cultural intelligence would have helped with our COVID response24:00 Are we missing out on good leadership by picking our leaders through cage fights?29:15 Humble leaders struggle with the need for self-promotion in Australia31:20 The difference of leadership styles between the East and the West36:30 Why the eastern leadership style does not make good clickbait39:30 Why know-it-all leaders is not suited to dealing with VUCA42:30 The role and power of followership is often overlooked48:00 Great leadership is an artform dependent on the situation, there is no silver bullet54:30 How do we reconcile humility with the need for self-promotion?