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2 ■ Develop your leadership skillsexperience. But experience or practice has to be illuminated byprinciples or ideas. It is when the sparks jump between the twothat learning happens. So you will have to think hard, relatingwhat I say to your experience as you read and reflecting on it.As with everything else in life, the more you put into this jointexploration of practical leadership, the more you will get out ofit.Let me add a bold claim for this short book. People oftendebate the differences and similarities of leadership andmanagement. But the majority of practical people are interestedprimarily in what they have to do, and not whether itshould be labelled ‘leadership’ or ‘management’ or both. As aChinese proverb says, ‘What does it matter if a cat is black orwhite, as long as it catches mice?’ This is the book for suchleaders. It is the first really successful synthesis of the conceptsof leadership and management. At last there is a single integratedvision, a focus that encompasses both perspectives.
1What you haveto beLet’s start with the most basic question of all: why is it that oneperson rather than another emerges, or is accepted, as a leaderwithin a group? In other words, what is leadership? The reasonfor starting here is that becoming clearer about the nature androle of leadership is the biggest step that you can take towardsimproving your own leadership skills. In the box overleaf, giveup to five responses to that question.
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