21. Teenagers & Leadership

Listening is a big theme of this episode. Speaking to seven seventeen year old students in Karachi Pakistan was fascinating. I asked them “ if the expedition delivers an approach to leadership that resonates with women, what would it need to do to resonate with their generation and geography”Some think that listening was their generations super power, they will listen to hear and not to give orders. Others that their generation needs to learn to listen to understand and not just to reply. All agreed that either way they would be better listeners than their mothers.We also covered the difference between a boss and aleader. How the expedition must not only teach them to collaborate but also to fight. How life of young women in Karachi is locked up. And we spoke of their rage.If cultural intelligence comes from listening to people in very different geographies, it also comes big time from people who are a third of your age .