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What You Need to Know About Leadership
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What You Need to Know About Leadership

by Jeff Grout, Liz Fisher
April 2011
Beginner
252 pages
4h 11m
English
Capstone
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CONCLUSION

As we said at the outset, this book is intended to help you bring out the leader in you, and not to tell you how a ‘typical’ leader acts and behaves. There is no such thing as a typical leader. There are just people who know how to lead.

Good leaders can achieve amazing things. During difficult times-and there have been plenty of those in recent years-we look for people we can trust, who can lead us into a better future. Leadership means different things to different people, which is why many of us struggle to explain what makes a good leader. But what we all know, mostly from our own experiences of being led by others, is what a good leader makes us feel, about ourselves and about what we believe we can do. The best leaders make us ...

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