If you put German chancellor Angela Merkel and Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary together in a room, which one would be the first to start telling the other how to run their business?
HIS last weekend showed us two leaders, and two different approaches to leadership. They are about as different as they could possibly be from each other. Both of them are important to the way we live our lives.
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