The Leadership Book, 2nd Edition

Part five

Leading your team: performance excellence

Getting the best from a team is the overriding concern of the effective leader since excellent performance can only be achieved this way. No leader can achieve excellence simply through actions alone. This again demonstrates why the greatest leaders realise that, at the same time, they lead from the front and also from behind: their fate lies with their colleagues’.

Clearly much of this rests with having the right team in the first place; selecting team members is itself an all too frequently unsung skill and one which can set the entire tone for the way a team functions. But much rests, too, on the way a team operates to achieve excellence, notably in:

• doing the right things at the right ...