Christine Lagarde
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Christine Lagarde reads as The Diplomat because her authority has always been built on trust across fractured coalitions. From the IMF through the Eurozone debt crisis to the European Central Bank amid pandemic and inflation shocks, she leads by absorbing diverse national perspectives and mediating between competing economic doctrines. Institutions that require consensus to function hold together under her stewardship, and that patient, coalition-first craft is the core of her power.
“It's important to have this desire to unite and to bring consensus to the table and to convince people that what we're doing together united is going to be stronger than what we will do individually.”
“If each individual is brilliant, it's great, but if they don't work together, you will not get the gold medal. So working together as a team actually matters enormously.”
“Making sure that people around me are doing the best they can for the organization, are delivering on their mission, and that we form a team heading in the same direction — that to me means an awful lot.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Christine Lagarde”
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