years ago, I worked with an executive who had been recruited from an industry with a very different culture to the organisation in which we were both working. This executive was frustrated at our collegiate and consultative culture, whereas he had come from a place where he just told people to get on and do the job. He had been recruited for his industry experience but had brought along a completely different set of acceptable leader behaviours. He was abrasive, occasionally rude, and was demotivating his new team.

This guy told me ‘he was who he was’, had been very successful and didn’t see why he should change. His feedback from his boss and colleagues told him the opposite.

In the end, he decided he would not change, and movedNorth Carolina's sweeping voting changes to go on trial in 2015

A man fills out a voter authorization form as he arrives to vote at the Covenant Presbyterian Church during the U.S. presidential election in Charlotte, North Carolina November 6, 2012.

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WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Challenges to North Carolina's new voter regulations that limit early voting and require voters to show photo identification at the polls will not go to trial until after the 2014 mid-term elections, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

The groups protesting the state's new law will have a chance, however, to argue for some of its provisions to be blocked before the full case is heard, Magistrate Judge Joi Elizabeth Peake said at a hearing in Winston-Salem.

The law's opponents had sought a quicker resolution