{"id":150065,"date":"2025-12-03T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=150065"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:12:25","slug":"anna-wintour-on-instinct-inclusion-and-bold-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=150065","title":{"rendered":"Anna Wintour on instinct, inclusion, and bold leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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At McKinsey Blog<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What struck me most is that Anna Wintour\u2019s real power isn\u2019t instinct. It\u2019s proximity.

Leaders lose their edge the moment they stop touching real life. She never did. Early walks, street-level curiosity, conversations outside the bubble. Instinct only works when you stay close enough to feel the world changing before the metrics can capture it.

Her take on mentorship is the part companies should pay attention to. She hires for humanity, not pedigree. She treats talent as an ecosystem, not a hierarchy. That is how culture gets built, not managed.

In an era obsessed with dashboards and quarterly certainty, it\u2019s refreshing to see a reminder that relevance is emotional first, measurable second.

The future belongs to leaders who are present enough to notice what others overlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At McKinsey Blog What struck me most is that Anna Wintour\u2019s real power isn\u2019t instinct. It\u2019s proximity. Leaders lose their edge the moment they stop touching real life. She never did. Early walks, street-level curiosity, conversations outside the bubble. Instinct only works when you stay close enough to feel the world changing before the metrics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34298,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=34298","url_meta":{"origin":150065,"position":0},"title":"Instinct Of Color","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"30\/10\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/52079653 OPI presents Instinct Of Color and a dancing horse steals the shoW! 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