Leadership: your teammates your enemies?

Imagine you are interviewing a potential candidate to lead a department in your company and he says, "I consider some of the folks in that department my enemies." This is a most unlikely comment in a business interview, but we heard it at an interview for the world's most important leadership position. At the recent CNN democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton was asked to name her enemy – and she responded, “probably the Republicans.” Thankfully, Joe Biden later corrected her saying it's critical to “end this notion that the enemy is the other party.”