Idea 5: Leadership characteristics – individual element

Dealing successfully with individuals is very different from dealing with your team as a group, although justice is common to both. Somehow you've got to balance the qualities of self-confidence and audacity with those of compassion and humility if you're to do the job really well.

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images Whilst the whole may be greater than the sum of the parts, the whole is made up of parts – each individual contribution counts.

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