I am unusual for a person of my age in that I have never learned to drive a car. I haven’t got a licence. (It’s a long story.) I recently decided that I wanted to learn about modern computer programming, which I hadn’t done in anger for about 20 years. I picked up a book about the Python language, and began working my way through it. (Don’t ask how far I got before I got distracted.) But, for both driving and programming in Python, I know what the skill is, I understand its scope, I knew I didn’t know it, and I knew what it took to learn it, and how to learn it.
Leadership, and leading teams in particular, is a much more slippery thing. People are usually a bit unsure what it entails and what the exact scope of it is. They might kind ...
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