CHAPTER 1
100 YEARS YOUNG: THE RAF PAST AND PRESENT
What do you think leadership is about?
What things do you think are the most important about leadership?
What are the skills, knowledge and behaviours that leaders need?
INTRODUCTION
Everyone has their own definition of what they mean by leadership. I will not try to define the term here, but any organisation can learn about leadership by observing what a highly successful institution has been doing for 100 years. The RAF was born in the midst of a desperately fought, blood-soaked war that shocked the world: a major crisis. That war saw startling changes in technology, thinking and ways of fighting, part of which was the use of aircraft in war. The RAF was ultimately successful in meeting those ...
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