The most emotionally intelligent leader I was lucky to work for

When I returned from London at the end of 1990, the unemployment rate in Australia was 9.8%, and few suitable jobs were available for a below-average 24-year-old recruitment consultant.

In one of the luckiest breaks of my life there was a job available at Temporary Solutions in Sydney.

I started my new job in the third week of January 1991, reporting to B…