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Question: Is the personality trait of flexibility apparent in Lagarde's management style, AND could her leadership style in the ECB be viewed as creative decision making?

What Christine Lagarde Brings to the ECB: Flexibility

The career of the next European Central Bank chief shows the institution is getting a diplomat and negotiator, not a technocrat or economist

ByJosh ZumbrunandBojan Pancevski

July 18, 2019 11:22 am ET

For seven hours, European finance ministers in a windowless room argued over how to keep a government-debt crisis from infecting eurozone economies, and the meeting threatened to fall into disarray.

Then Christine Lagarde stood up to speak.

She read a proposed solution from notes she had jotted while the others were debating, said Thomas Wieser, a senior European civil servant who was there. "A group of ministers alternating between screaming and mumbling, some of them not necessarily well-informed, gradually went quiet."

The ministers, said Mr. Wieser and other participants, rallied to Ms. Lagarde's side.

That was May 2010 in Brussels, when Ms. Lagarde was French finance minister. The topic was how to preventGreece's financial crisisfrom threatening the eurozone's survival. The brand of political compromise Ms. Lagarde displayed there would play out during her tenure as theInternational Monetary Fund's head from June 2011. This month, it helped her become the person tapped by European leadersto helm the European Central Bank,the most influential monetary-policy maker after the U.S. Federal Reserve.

A review of her career offers hints at what kind of ECB chief she would be. On numerous occasions, she has shown a politician's pragmatism to the point of pivoting sharply away from some of her own initial policy positions. In 2018, Ms. Lagarde, who once said Greek debt was "totally unsustainable," shifted her longstanding stance to cut a deal with European creditors that ignored the IMF demand to restructure Athens's enormous

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