CHAPTER 8
FLIGHT PATH TO SUCCESS: HOW RAF LEADERSHIP IS DEVELOPED
If people achieve excellence in their professional life, such as a doctor becoming a consultant, why do we expect them to be able to lead without education or training?
How do people learn to lead?
How do we know when people are good leaders?
INTRODUCTION
Leaders in the RAF are both selected and developed. The development of leaders has three parts: education, reflection and practice. By far the most powerful is always practice, but practice is a much less effective way to learn without the education and reflection. The fact that RAF leaders are both selected and developed reflects the RAF’s answer to the eternal question of whether leaders are born or made. Leaders can certainly ...
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