Leadership: It's in Your DNA

Leadership it's in your DNA A blend of 10 ingredients within us self • expression • focus • emotion • instinct creativity • dark side • fear • resilience • luck

My dream with this book is simple. To show you that your leadership DNA sits alongside your biological DNA. You already have the ten ingredients to unlock and release your unique blend. I now hand you the key.

There is a true leader in all of us and Rhea Duttagupta insightfully reminds us that our own unique qualities combined with crucible learning moments and some humility can unlock the inner compass for a meaningful and rewarding life' Paul Polman, Group CEO, Unilever

Origins and roots are important. If you can't remember and respect where you have come from, it's hard to drive where you are going."

Stuart Gulliver, Group CEO, HSBC

*Whoever we are, each one of us faces a moment which calls on us to lead.

This book prepares us for those moments'

Dr Han Seung-soo, 35th Prime Minister of South Korea,

UN Special Envoy for Cilmate Change

Rhea Duttagupta presents leadership as an organic force connected with individual identity. The author's rich personal biography melds into illuminating conversations with leading figures that accompany a joumey of self discovery. This is the distinguishing focus of the title. An exciting, thought provoking book that dives deep to find leadership's roots, and its human heart.

Dipak C Jain, Dean. INSEAD Business School

Having just left university, Rhea's insights and the '10 ingredients' she explores are already proving invaluable in identifying how to reach my own potential as I embark on the start of my career.'

Emily Benn, Student and Graduate recruit at UBS

'Attitude, Belief, Creativity and Instincts, being ingredients we are bom with, create closer human connections releasing the natural leadership in us all.* Angela Ahrendts, CEO, Burberry

Author: Rhea Duttagupta