Good leadership begins with self-leadership - and if you want to lead yourself, you have to understand yourself.
Studies show that whether a conflict escalates or a role fits has a lot to do with attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that have developed from the family dynamics of our childhood.
"What I noticed in my childhood still shapes my management style today," says Lunia Hara, director of project management at the agency and VW subsidiary Diconium.
She has dealt intensively with her values and her childhood.
In the Team A podcast, the manager talks about how her biography influences her leadership.
Hara grew up in a small, traditional village in Zambia.
There was neither electricity nor running water.
She has 13 siblings.
"You quickly learn to communicate with very different characters, to balance interests and to make yourself understood," she says.
"You appreciate the expertise of others because life in the village is difficult enough and every piece of advice counts. And you learn to support others because you also depend on them."
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At the age of ten, Hara moved to Berlin with an older sister.
She was amazed at the role children play in Germany.
"At the age of ten you are already very independent in Zambia. You can make a fire, cook, fetch water," she says.
"You can actually run a household, take care of babies. And then I came to Berlin and heard: The playground is over there."
In the podcast, you'll learn how Lunia Hara has had an extraordinary career, how she leads her team and why she struggled with her father's belief system to conform.
In the honest leadership podcast Team A, editors-in-chief Antonia Götsch (Harvard Business manager) and Astrid Maier (Xing News) talk to managers and guests from science and sport about leadership, strategy and management every two weeks. Team A appears fortnightly here as well as on Spotify and Apple in the podcast
