CHAPTER 4
THE RAF’S MODERN APPROACH TO LEADERSHIP: SPOTTING LEADERSHIP – WHO IS THE LEADER?
Who should lead in an organisation?
What enables there to be more than one leader?
Why is office politics so necessary but so loathed?
INTRODUCTION
Before the RAF took up the mantra of Mission Command as its philosophy of leadership, the idea behind what it did was ‘centralised command, decentralised control’. Aircraft are expensive, and there are never enough of them to go around all the places where they might be needed. Centralising command allowed senior commanders with the best overall view to apportion the available aircraft to where they would have the greatest effect, or were most needed. Decentralising control allowed local commanders to use the ...
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