In the fifth episode of The Leaders’ Room season two, we spoke to Square International’s CEO, John O’Beirne.
The Leaders’ Room podcast features interviews with the country managers of some of Ireland’s leading sci-tech multinationals. It was created in partnership with IDA Ireland.
Episode five of season two features John O’Beirne, CEO and executive director of Square International.
O’Beirne said that what makes good leadership now isn’t necessarily what made good leadership a number of years ago, when it was all about making decisions quickly and independently.
“You have to be really good at bringing people together – particularly people with diverse backgrounds – to challenge the thinking,” he said.
“A lot of leadership comes down to being able to build teams and get those teams, who’ll have different perspectives to you and insights to you, you won’t always agree on them, but being able to unite them to form that strategy and direction for the business, then putting it into place, and making sure it’s communicated and managed over time.”
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Words by Jenny Darmody