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Selected: Why some lead, others follow and why it matters

2nd Sep 2010; 13:00

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RSA Thursday

What makes a good or bad leader, why are some people followers, and what are the benefits of each?

In their new book Selected, Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja fuse psychology, business, history and current affairs to examine how and why leadership has evolved over tens of thousands of years.

Drawing on examples from politics, commerce, sport and culture, they present a new ‘mismatch hypothesis’ - arguing that the slowness of evolution means that there is a mismatch between modern ideas of leadership and the kind of leadership that our Stone Age brains are still wired for.

Join Professor Mark van Vugt at the RSA to learn how the evolution of leadership affects us all, in both our personal and professional lives.

Chair: Matthew Taylor, RSA Chief Executive

Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #rsaselected