Ep 13: Niven Postma - Why Should Anyone Be Led By You? Leadership in Light of Office Politics

Why should anyone be led by you? How does power differ from authority in a true and authentic leadership? Why not everyone who is in a leadership position is a leader? Why a true and a great leader is like a gardener? How do office politics impact leadership? Is office politics something we can escape? Did you know that sometimes people get fired over the office politics? Those and so many other questions are answered in an incredibly interesting way by Niven Postma - Klaudyna's very special guest of this 13th and a lucky episode. 

Niven Postma is a world-known and a strongly recognized on a global arena leadership expert. She has held executive positions since she was 29, in a career that has spanned multiple sectors and roles. Before starting up her own consultancy and embarking on her PhD, her positions included being CEO of the Businesswomen’s Association, Head of the SARB Academy at the South African Reserve Bank and Head of Leadership and Culture for the Standard Bank Group (the largest bank by assets in Africa). She is a Harvard Business Review and Inc. Africa contributor, a strategy and culture facilitator for clients in industries as diverse as financial services, retail, media and manufacturing and an expert lecturer and facilitator on women’s leadership development programmes around the world. She is also the Chairman of the Board of Cotlands, an NGO that does cutting edge work in the Early Childhood Development space in South Africa and beyond. Niven is also an author of a book focusing on office politics "IF YOU DON'T DO POLITICS, POLITICS WILL DO YOU…: A guide to navigating office politics effectively and ethically. (And yes, it is possible.)". 

This conversation will change your perspective on leadership and office politics. It will show you a perspective of those both topics you will not forget about.

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