Chapter 7Skill One: Leadership

What is leadership? Leadership for me is keeping things as simple as they can be. It's not about overcomplicating things – it's about results. It's about achieving the big picture. It's about deciding what result your organization, your family or your sports club want to achieve and it's about engaging yourself and those around you with effective communication to ‘come on board' and deliver that result.

Steve Radcliffe in his simple book called Future Engage Deliver talks about that very process, Future, Engage and Deliver. He said that with all his experience of working within large organizations as a chief executive and then as a leadership coach, he realized that we make leadership more complex than it is. ...

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