What You Can Learn About Leadership from Justin Trudeau’s Big Win

Modern organizations increasingly need networks of expertise, not command-and-control hierarchies

n April 2014, a picture appeared of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and then-city councillor Adam Vaughan on the front page of the Toronto Star. Taken by the political party’s official photographer, it showed the two men deep in conversation at downtown Toronto bistro.

The accompanying story reported the Liberals had wooed Vaughan to run as a candidate in an upcoming by-election (He won, then trounced NDP candidate Olivia Chow in yesterday’s vote). “I talked to Justin and he listened and I listened to him and I want to help make him prime minister,” said Vaughan in the story.

The scenario was familiar—after all, how many bosses have buttered up a potential employee by taking them out for a nice lunch? But publicizing the moment sent a message: At a time when Prime Minister Stephen Harper increasingly looked like a one-man-band, Trudeau was building a...

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