PART ONE
Understanding Leadership
My greatest discovery by far has been regarding what people now call the generic role of leader, the role that is common to all working groups and organizations anywhere in the world.
At the heart of that role lie the three overlapping core responsibilities of any leader: achieving the task, building and maintaining the team, and developing the individual.
This model implies an understanding of the environment in which you are working. In order to fulfil these responsibilities, you need to know your business, and you need to possess or develop the necessary qualities of personality, character and skills to provide the eight generic leadership functions: defining the task, planning, briefing, controlling, evaluating, ...
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