Part eleven
Learning: leadership development
When I was 27, I was privileged to undertake a company-sponsored, full-time MBA. My then boss thought it was a complete and utter waste of time, likely to be a year spent indulged in discussing ‘management speak’ with little or no practical benefit. His view was that good management (I don’t think he would have distinguished this from leadership) comes naturally, and that in essence you should ‘get on with it’.
He said this as the most brilliant natural leader I have ever met – he did indeed just get on with it, but the rarity of seeing someone with natural leadership skills only goes to emphasise how unusual it is.
I do not subscribe to the view that great leaders are born with leadership skills, ...
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