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Orianna Rosa Royle
Aug 21, 2022

How authentic do we really want our leaders to be?

In contrast to calls for leaders to be vulnerable, marketing agency boss Braden Wallake's tearful selfie on LinkedIn was met with criticism and he was dubbed the "crying CEO".

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