What Leaders Really Do
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What Do Leaders Really Do?
Getting under the skin of
what makes a great leader tickFrom: Jeff Grout & Liz Fisher
Chichester, UK: Capstone Publishing (2007)Leaders believe that:
- At its core, leadership is about integrity
- Trust should move in both directions
- Good leaders are rarely poor at their underlying job
- Clarity of thought is an essential skill for leaders
- Leadership is more about emotion than it is about logic
- Leaders should lead by example, not direction
- Luck inevitably plays a part in anyone’s career
- Being different helps to set a leader apart and makes them easily identifiable
- Leaders should set a clear direction (Grout & Fisher, 2007, p. 15).
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