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126 PART 3: THE PERSONAL SIDE OF LEADERSHIP
Next 10 years:

Following 10 years:

Following 10 years:

Following 10 years:

What personal skills and strengths will you use to achieve the future?

What is your core life purpose or theme as expressed in the life line and answers above?

What would your desired future self say to your present self?

How do your answers above relate to your scores on the Leader Self-Insight question-
naires you completed in this chapter?

Leadership Development: Cases for Analysis

International Bank
Top executives and board members of a large international bank in New York are meeting
to consider three finalists for a new position. The winning candidate will be in a high-
profile job, taking charge of a group of top loan officers who have recently gotten the
bank into some risky financial arrangements in Latin America. The bank had taken a
financial bath when the Mexican peso collapsed, and the board voted to hire someone to
directly oversee this group of loan officers and make sure the necessary due diligence is
done on major loans before further commitments are made. Although the bank likes for
decisions to be made as close to the action level as possible, they believe the loan officers
have gotten out of hand and need to be reined in. The effectiveness of the person in this
new position is considered to be of utmost importance for the bank’s future. After care-
fully reviewing resumés, the board selected six candidates for the first round of interviews,
after which the list of finalists was narrowed to three. All three candidates seem to have
the intellect and experience to handle the job. Before the second-round interview, the
board has asked their regular consulting firm to review the candidates, conduct more
extensive background checks, and administer personality tests. A summary of their reports
on the three candidates follows:
A.M. This candidate has a relatively poor self-concept and exhibits a fear of the unknown.
She is somewhat of an introvert and is uncomfortable using power openly and conspicuously.
A.M.’s beliefs about others are that all people are inherently noble, kind, and disposed to do