PART FIVE
The Challenge of Strategic Leadership
Leadership exists at three broad levels: team, operational and leadership. In Part Five we shall explore together the generic role of the strategic leader and its seven constituent functions.
There is an underlying unity in strategic leadership, whatever field you are in and however structured or unstructured your work in it may be. Walter Bagehot, a nineteenth-century banker, economist and journalist famous for his insights into economics and political questions, understood this well:
The summits of the various kinds of business are, like the tops of mountains, much more alike than the parts below – the bare principles are much the same; it is only the rich variegated details of the lower strata ...
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