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intellectually humble, opinionated adaptors, and flexible visionaries.
Here’s an example of how they’ve visualized opinionated adaptors so that it’s easy to see the balance a leader is trying to strike:

As Tomasz Tunguz, a prolific blogger and partner at the venture capital firm Redpoint, writes, “the core of leadership starts with listening and then being able to balance the external points of view with a strong sense of self (values, direction, belief).”

3. Risk-taking, but not reckless
Because leaders have conviction around some idea or some insight into how the world works, they’re willing to make bets on that.
In her TED talk, Rosalinde Torres, a leadership expert from the management consulting firm BCG, talks about leadership in the 21st century as being defined by three questions, distilled from a study of 4,000 companies and her 25 years of experience.