# Are we celebrating the wrong leaders?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxBerlin
- Speaker: Martin Gutmann
- Year: 2024
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Society and politics, History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_gutmann_are_we_celebrating_the_wrong_leaders)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

We tend to celebrate leaders for their dramatic words and actions in times of crisis — but we often overlook truly great leaders who avoid the crisis to begin with. Historian Martin Gutmann challenges us to rethink what effective leadership actually looks like, drawing on lessons from the famed (but disaster-prone) explorer Ernest Shackleton.

## Lectures

1. [Are we celebrating the wrong leaders?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/martin_gutmann_are_we_celebrating_the_wrong_leaders/41d28d475dde), 16 min (TED's player)