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How to be a leader with both your head and your heart

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How to be a leader with both your head and your heart(Getty Images Carol Yepes)

Our image and expectation of a good leader is changing, and increasingly we're needing them to use both their head and their heart in making decisions.

Leadership expert and author Dr Kirstin Ferguson argues that the art of this type of leadership is knowing what is needed when. So what does this balancing act really look like?

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