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Leadership
For we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
Book of Job 8:9
In a nutshell
Of all the subjects in The Every Day MBA, leadership holds the greatest promise for both personal learning and organisational development. Our culture has given us a number of iconic ideas and images around leadership, yet we have found it very difficult to agree on one definition. Management organises what is already there and uses this to make plans for what is to come. Leadership, meanwhile, actively steers towards a future that would not just happen by management alone. It is a conscious, deliberate movement from the known to the unexplored and untested. Leadership is relational. It is just as much about ...
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